Welcome!

I hold a PhD in Political Science from Columbia University, and starting in October 2024 I will be a Humboldt Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Mannheim with the Chair of Dr. Sabine Carey. 

I study the domestic and international politics of violence, state capacity, and property rights in Latin America and the United States. In my research, I combine quantitative methods for causal identification with observational data with in-depth fieldwork and archival methods. My research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy,  and the Institute for Latin American Studies at Columbia University. I have also worked in foreign policy at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. 

My work is published in the Annual Review of Political Science, International Studies Quarterly, PS: Political Science & Politics and World Politics, among other journals.  My Google Scholar page is here.

Contact: 

efb2130[at]columbia[dot]edu