I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Government at Cornell University, specializing in Comparative Politics with a minor in American Politics. I am a Graduate Fellow at the Cornell Center on Democracy and at the Institute for European Studies.
My research focuses on state-building, nationalism, democratic representation, electoral institutions, and parliamentary elite behavior. My dissertation studies the politics of nation-state making, migration, and the labor market in nineteenth-century Imperial Germany. Methodologically, I combine quantitative observational data and quasi-experimental designs for causal inference with historical and archival evidence.
Before coming to Cornell, I studied at the London School of Economics, Yale University (as a Fulbright exchange scholar), the University of Konstanz, and Leipzig University, among others.