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. My research focuses on political violence, extractive industries, migration, peacebuilding, and democratic citizenship in Latin America. I seek to understand how the violent governance orders imposed by state and non-state actors in contexts of armed conflict and weak institutions shape the political behavior of ordinary citizens. Increasingly, my work also explores how environmental stressors intersect with these dynamics, contributing to migration, social conflict, and governance challenges. I am also developing 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 commodity shocks intersect with illicit and extractive economies to explain corruption and environmental enforcement levels; 2) how social and territorial control shape rebel governance during wars; 3) how wartime governance orders affect post-conflict 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. |
