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.
Addressing multidimensional policy problems, such as civil conflict and global climate change, requires effective coordination between domestic and international actors. I research how this coordination may be improved, specifically within the context of environmental governance and public service provision in West Africa. Using novel panel data collected over six months of fieldwork in Liberia, my job market paper demonstrates how traditional leaders contribute to contemporary statebuilding efforts by redirecting citizens' grievances with the government through existing institutions. In my other dissertation research, I study how United Nations (UN) peacekeepers affect post-conflict recovery when they act as public service providers -- e.g., delivering "Quick Impact Projects" -- and environmental managers -- e.g., preparing forests and mineral desposits for foreign direct investment in Liberia. Additional research interests of mine include: causal inference and field experiments, UN peacekeeping and climate change, environmental governance, and the political economy of development. I have been fortunate enough to co-author work in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory and International Peacekeeping. |
