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Welcome! I am a postdoctoral research fellow at the Center for Interamerican Policy and Research (CIPR) at Tulane University. I received my PhD in Peace Studies and Political Science from the University of Notre Dame (USA) in May 2024. I was previously a predoctoral fellow at the Montreal Center for International Studies (CERIUM) at Université de Montréal and a Civil War Paths Fellow at the University of York. My research focuses on political violence, migration, and democratic citizenship, examining how violent political orders shape the long-term political behavior of ordinary citizens in Latin America. I seek to understand how the governance orders imposed by state and non-state actors in contexts of armed conflict and weak institutions shape the attitudes and behaviors of those who live under them. I also employ evidence-based approaches to design and test interventions to strengthen accountability, the rule of law, and peaceful coexistence between groups living in violent or post-violent societies. My book project employs mixed-methods to investigate how the survival strategies that civilians adopt during genocide drive post-conflict political behavior. I rely on a natural experiment, archive work, interviews, and a survey to map how the different strategies used by civilians to navigate genocide shaped the formation of divergent political cultures in survivor indigenous communities in Guatemala. In the book, I also examine how genocide-inherited political cultures endure overtime and explain present day indigenous political mobilization. In additional projects, I study 1) how the governance of refugee camps affects refugees' long term political engagement, 2) how varying levels of territorial control shape rebel governance during wars; 3) how wartime governance orders shape civilian political behavior in Colombia, and 4) how criminality and low levels of accountability shape perceptions of human rights in violent societies. I have also published research about the structure of knowledge production and dynamics of power in academia at the Journal of Peace Research. I received an MA in International Security cum laude from Sciences Po Paris, France. |
