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Research Interests

🌐 Human Rights

🌐 State Repression

🌐 Oppression

🌐 Measurement

Education

<aside> <img src="/icons/arrow-right_gray.svg" alt="/icons/arrow-right_gray.svg" width="40px" /> Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science (expected 2025), Vanderbilt University

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<aside> <img src="/icons/arrow-right_gray.svg" alt="/icons/arrow-right_gray.svg" width="40px" /> M.A. in Political Science (2022), Vanderbilt University

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<aside> <img src="/icons/arrow-right_gray.svg" alt="/icons/arrow-right_gray.svg" width="40px" /> B.A. in Political Science (2019), University of North Carolina at Asheville

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About Me

I am a Ph.D. Candidate in International Relations and Political Methodology in the Department of Political Science at Vanderbilt University. Prior to coming to Vanderbilt, I received my B.A. in Political Science in 2019 from the University of North Carolina at Asheville.

Research

My research focuses on questions regarding state repression, human rights, and how these concepts can be best measured and evaluated. In particular, I'm interested in how agents responsible for implementing repressive policies affect what actually occurs in practice.

Working Papers

• Competing Accountability and Noncompliance by Agents of Repression
• Measuring Accountability for Coercive State Agent Abuses
• Societal Repression: Civilians as Agents of Government Repression (with Emily Hencken Ritter)
• Pipeline Diversity via Career Diversity : Lessons from a Research Experience for Undergraduates (with Emily Hencken Ritter, Sharece Thrower, Alexander Tripp, Elizabeth J. Zechmeister)
• Allotments & Actions: Bureaucratic Repression and Its Effects on First American Collective Action (with Emily Hencken Ritter, Kai Keltner, Connor Johnson)

Published Work

Chapter 7: Human Rights: The Responsibilities to Respect, Protect, and Fulfill (with Linda Cornett and Mark Gibney). 2022. Reconfigurations of Authority, Power and Territoriality, edited by George Andreopoulos and Stephen Rosow. Edward Elgar Publishing.

Virtual Seminars and Support Strategies for Junior Scholars: Lessons from the Online Peace Science Colloquium (with Cassy Dorff and Bradley C. Smith). 2022. PS: Political Science & Politics 55(3):558-559.

Public Scholarship

"Abortion Bans Are a Tool of Political Repression" (with Emily Hencken Ritter). July 5th, 2022. Political Violence @ a Glance.

Data Projects

Political Terror Scale, Principal Researcher

The Political Terror Scale