Welcome! I am an Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at Northeastern University.

I study the politics of transitional justice and legacies of conflict. My broader interests include human rights violations, post-conflict processes, and public opinion. I am interested in various methodological approaches—from survey experiments and text-as-data, to process tracing and interviews. My scholarship appears in World Politics, The Journal of Politics, Journal of Peace Research, Journal of Conflict Resolution, International Studies Quarterly, and Conflict Management & Peace Science.

Recent projects explore the effects of war crimes trials, political apologies, and other transitional justice policies on public opinion and state behavior; the portrayal of international criminal justice in public discourse; and the role of civil society in peace processes.

I teach courses on comparative politics, international affairs, and conflict. My teaching has received Northeastern’s College of Social Sciences and Humanities Outstanding Teaching Award (2020-2021).

I am a Faculty Affiliate of the Global Resilience Institute and Global Asian Studies Program at Northeastern University, and a Faculty Associate (by courtesy) of the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations at Harvard University, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. Prior to joining Northeastern, I was a Postdoctoral Research Scholar in the Department of Political Science at Columbia University.

I hold a Ph.D. in political science from Stanford University and a B.A. in international relations and French from New York University.

Research Interests

Transitional justice, conflict legacies, human rights, post-conflict processes, public opinion, Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa