Welcome to my website!

I recently received my PhD in Political Science from Michigan State University. Presently, I am am a predoctoral fellow (in residence) at Johns Hopkins University’s SNF Agora Institute as well as a research fellow at the Institute for Public Policy and Social Research.

Starting in Fall 2026, I will be a Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University’s Center for Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law.

I study democratic backsliding, political violence, international pressure, and methods. My dissertation project focuses on the causes and consequences of opposition to backsliding. It examines the nexus of domestic and international factors in shaping support for and the success of oppositionsin backsliding democracies.

My work has been published or is forthcoming in Nature: Scientific Data, the International Journal of Public Opinion Research, American Politics Research, and International Affairs,and been featured in the LSE American Politics and Policy Blog and the Institute for Liberty and Responsibility’s “Achsania” blog series.

I was born and raised in Bangkok, Thailand, before spending a decade in Tel Aviv, Israel. I completed my B.A. and M.A. in Government (with a specialization in conflict studies) at Reichman University in Herzliya, Israel. I also received an M.A. in Political Science from Michigan State University in 2023, and was previously an Editorial Assistant for the Journal of Politics and a visiting PhD student at University of Chicago’s Center on Democracy.

I have also had the pleasure of consulting on projects funded by the US Department of State and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

My research has been generously funded and supported by the Institute for Humane Studies, the College of Social Science at Michigan State University, the Institute for Liberty and Responsibility at Reichman University, and the Polarization Research Lab at Dartmouth College.