I am currently an associate senior lecturer (assistant professor) at the  Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University (Sweden). Previously, I was an assistant professor in the Politics Department at the University of San Francisco (2018-2021), a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Government at Wesleyan University (2017-2018), and a postdoctoral fellow at the Buffett Institute for Global Studies at Northwestern University from 2015-2017.  

 

My research sits at the intersection of international relations and comparative politics and focuses on the causes and consequences of political violence, elections, land rights, climate change, and forced migration. While most of my work has focused on sub-Saharan Africa, I've also begun analyzing political violence in the United States. 

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Currently, I am PI on a three-year project, funded by the Swedish Research Council, examining the local sources of refugee inclusion and host-refugee cooperation in Uganda. 

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Previous research has received support from the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, the Strauss Center for International Law and Security (UT-Austin), the United States Institute of Peace (Jennings Randolph Peace Fellowship), the Social Science Research Council (IDRF), National Science Foundation (NSF DDIG), and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

 

I received my PhD in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2015 and my B.A from Smith College in 2007.