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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 regime change, national identity, and state-society relations before, during, and following imperialism.

Drawing on archival and contemporary data, I analyze how the strategies of parliamentary and extra-parliamentary parties amid the turbulence of imperial collapse shape distinct pathways of regime consolidation through contestation over who is included in the nation and, subsequently, who has access to the regime. My work, therefore, examines the consequences of diversity in (mostly) authoritarian regimes 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.