About Me |
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I am a Ph.D candidate at the University of California, Santa Barbara's Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, a former USIP Peace Scholar Fellow, and a former IGCC Dissertation Fellow. In August 2022, I will start as an Assistant Professor of Environmental Policy in Chapman University's Environmental Science and Policy program.
Shortages in environmental goods and services like clean water and reliable electricity are a persistent barrier to safeguarding human well-being around the world. My research both investigates the political effects of these shortages and asks how we might design institutions that strengthen the government's capacity to provide environmental goods and services. For example, my job market paper uses novel panel data collected over six months of fieldwork in Liberia to demonstrate how informally elected community leaders mitigate the otherwise destabilizing effects of shortages in electricity, drinking water, and solid waste services. My research also demonstrates how UN peacekeeping operations can strengthen environmental governance and facilitate foreign direct investment in post-conflict countries' extractive sectors. I have been fortunate enough to publish research in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory and International Peacekeeping. |
