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 2020-2021 USIP Peace Scholar Fellow, and a 2020-2021 IGCC Dissertation Fellow.
I research the political economy of public service provision and natural resource management in countries emerging from civil conflict. My primary dissertation project use panel data, collected over six months of fieldwork in Liberia, to assess the impact of basic service shortages on protest. In my other dissertation projects, I (1) test whether United Nations (UN) "Quick Impact Projects" contribute to peacebuilding in Mali and (2) evaluate whether UN peacekeepers facilitated foreign direct investment in natural resource concessions in Liberia. My other research interests include: causal inference and experiments, natural resources and conflict, and the effect of citizen monitoring on natural resource management. 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. |
