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Welcome! I am a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Cluster of Excellence, The Politics of Inequality, at the University of Konstanz. I am a mixed-methods political scientist whose research examines democratization, the construction and politicization of national identity, and the political origins of exclusionary regimes in post-colonial contexts.

Drawing on archival and contemporary data, I analyze how the strategies of parliamentary and extra-parliamentary parties amid the turbulence of imperial collapse and mass migration shape distinct pathways of regime consolidation through contestation over who is included in the nation and, subsequently, who has access to the state and its services. My work, therefore, examines the consequences of diversity in (mostly) authoritarian states and the boundaries of national identity, including processes of racialization, access to citizenship, and civil rights and liberties.

​My current book project, The Liberal Origins of Fascism: The Politics of Access in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, shows how struggles over individual and collective inclusion in the state and civil society generate divergent regime trajectories in deeply divided and diverse societies. I, along with some brilliant co-authors, am also working on several related papers on the contemporary period and rigorous approaches to mixed-method research and design.