About Me

I am an assistant professor with a joint appointment in the School of Government and Public Policy (SGPP) and School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies (MENAS) at the University of Arizona, and a non-resident fellow of the Crown Center for Middle East Studies at Brandeis University. A scholar of comparative politics with a regional focus on the Middle East and North Africa, I earned my Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton University in 2022. My research focuses on social and economic policymaking, women’s economic and political participation, and how public policy, law, and citizen-state interactions shape social norms. I am particularly interested in how policy adoption, design, and implementation affect citizen attitudes toward governance and political behavior. My work combines qualitative and quantitative methods, including elite interviewing, focus groups, survey and field experiments, and computational approaches. I teach courses on the International Politics of the Middle East, Gender and Politics, and the Politics of International Development. In 2018-2019 I was a Fulbright grantee to Morocco, and before earning a Ph.D. I was a research fellow in the Middle East Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.