Photo credits: Cheryl Gerber
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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. I received an MA in International Security cum laude from Sciences Po Paris, France. I will be on the job market in Fall 2026. I am interested in the impact of violence and non-state governance on the political behavior of ordinary citizens, and how to devise peacebuilding policies that tackle those legacies. My research focuses on rebel and criminal governance, migration, peacebuilding, and democratic citizenship in Latin America. My book project employs mixed-methods to investigate how wartime governance shapes civilians' political cultures and drives post-conflict political behavior. I rely on a natural experiment, archive work, interviews, and a survey to map how the different survival strategies adopted by civilians to navigate violence and how different wartime governance systems 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 against extractivism, organized crime, and corruption. In additional projects, I study 1) how the governance of refugee camps shape refugee political behavior; 2) how commodity booms lead to the emergence of organized crime in legal markets; 3) how social and territorial control shape rebel governance during wars; 4) how rebel governance affects perceptions of statebuilding in Colombia, and 5) 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. |
