I am currently Senior Data Scientist at Big League Advance. I received my Ph.D. in Politics at Princeton University in 2020. My dissertation, “Trade Policy in the Shadow of Power,” studied how military coercion affects the structure of the international economy – where economic activity is located and who trades with whom. In another line of research, I study exchange and violence in black markets. At Princeton, I taught the Politics Department’s summer math course for incoming graduate students, along with Daniel Gibbs. Before starting graduate school, I worked at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments in Washington D.C. and studied Political Science and Peace, War, & Defense at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Research
Dissertation
- Trade Policy in the Shadow of Power: Theory and Evidence on Economic Openness and Coercive Diplomacy
Working Papers
- Trade Policy in the Shadow of Power: Quantifying Military Coercion in the International System
Last updated 28 July 2020.
- How Wide is the Ethnic Border?
with Scott F Abramson and Bethany Lacina. Last updated 26 June 2020.
- Gunshots and Turf Wars: Inferring Gang Territories from Shooting Reports
with Noam Reich. Last updated 24 April 2020.
- Estimating Policy Barriers to Trade
Last updated 18 May 2020.
- Gunboat Diplomacy: Political Bias, Trade Policy, and War
Last updated 13 November 2019.
Works in Progress
- Prohibition, Theft, and Violence: Monopolistic Pricing and Exchange in Illicit Markets
with Colin Krainin and Kristopher Ramsay
- Market Structure, Military Coercion, and the International Politics of Oil Production
Teaching
Princeton University
Summer 2018, Summer 2019
Co-taught with Dan Gibbs
- POL 240 / WWS 312: International Relations (Preceptor)
Spring 2018
Professor: Andrew Moravcsik
- POL 387: International Intervention and the Use of Force (Preceptor)
Fall 2017
Professor: Melissa Lee
Other
- ENG 102: Introduction to Literary Analysis
Spring 2016
Princeton Prison Teaching Initiative (PTI), Garden State Youth Correctional Facility
Spring 2014
University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, Carolina Students Taking Academic Responsibility Through Teaching (C-START) Program
Notes
R code to calculate distances between historical capital cities, 1816-present
R code to read, clean, and count international dyadic event data