Welcome! I am a PhD Candidate in Peace Studies and Political Science at the University of Notre Dame (USA). During Spring 2023 I was a pre-doctoral fellow at the Center for International Studies (CERIUM) at the University of Montreal. I am a scholar of political violence focusing on the long-term legacies of violent governance and civilian agency on political participation, inequality, attitudes towards accountability and repetition of violence. My dissertation 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 shape the formation of divergent political cultures. Focusing on indigenous communities in Guatemala, I examine how genocide-inherited political cultures endure overtime and explain present day indigenous political mobilization. In additional projects, I study 1) whether territorial control is a necessary condition for rebel governance during wars; 2) how misinformation shapes perceptions of transitional justice in post-conflict 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 from Sciences Po Paris, France. |