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🌐 Human Rights
🌐 State Repression
🌐 Oppression
🌐 Measurement
<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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I am a Research Professional at the Center for the Study of Global Issues (GLOBIS) at the University of Georgia and a member of the Methodology, Research, and Design team for the Human Rights Measurement Initiative. I am also a Ph.D. Candidate in International Relations and Political Methodology in the Department of Political Science at Vanderbilt University. I received my B.A. in Political Science in 2019 from the University of North Carolina at Asheville.
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.
Pipeline Diversity via Career Diversity: Lessons from a Research Experience for Undergraduates Program (with Emily Hencken Ritter, Sharece Thrower, Alexander Tripp, and Elizabeth Zechmeister). 2025. PS: Political Science & Politics First View:1-6.
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.
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.
"Abortion Bans Are a Tool of Political Repression" (with Emily Hencken Ritter). July 5th, 2022. Political Violence @ a Glance.
Political Terror Scale, Principal Researcher
Human Rights Measurement Initiative, Methodology, Research, and Design Team Member