I am a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Government and an affiliate of the Center for European Studies, Davis Center, and Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University. My research focuses on historical political economy, comparative political behavior, and ethnic politics.

My dissertation investigates long-run continuities between the distant past and contemporary political outcomes. I ask whether the effects of major historical events persist more than half a century later and what mechanisms are responsible for the survival and reproduction of political attitudes and behavior. I use original historical data, collected during a year of fieldwork in Poland funded by the Social Science Research Council, to show that hostility toward an ethnic outgroup can persist even if that outgroup is no longer present and that post-WWII displacement restructured patterns of connectivity between people, changing their reliance on the state and the market for service provision following the 1989 transition.

My research combines archival and field research with advanced statistical methods. It has appeared in Comparative Political Studies and the European Journal of International Relations as well as two edited volumes. You can download a copy of my CV here.