About Me

Welcome! I am an incoming postdoctoral research fellow in the School of Regulation and Global Governance at Australian National University. I received my PhD in Political Science from the University of Notre Dame in 2025, where I was a PhD Fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies.

My research examines the political economy of climate change and the environment, focusing in particular on national climate mitigation efforts among countries governed by authoritarian regimes. In my current book project, Decarbonizing Dictatorship: Explaining Climate Action in Nondemocracies, I analyze how energy resource endowments, executive constraints, and leaders' political survival strategies shape political incentives and opportunities for climate action. In a related project, I show that executive constraints moderate the effect of fossil fuel wealth on greenhouse gas emissions in authoritarian regimes, while other projects explore questions related to climate change adaptation.

My research has been published in Climate Policy, Global Environmental Politics, Perspectives on Politics, Millennium: Journal of International Studies, and Nature Climate Change. My teaching experience includes undergraduate and graduate courses on comparative politics, global environmental politics, linear regression, and sustainability.

Like many scholars of the environment, I love nature, being outdoors, gardening, and leading an active lifestyle. Don't be shy about getting in touch!

I recognize my presence on the traditional land of Native peoples, including the Pokagon Potawatomi (Pokégnek Bodéwadmik) and other first nations. These lands were the traditional territory of these peoples and continues to carry the stories of their struggles for survival and identity. I honor with gratitude the land itself and those who have stewarded it throughout the generations and continue to do so.

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