About Me

I am a scholar of comparative politics with a regional focus on the Middle East and North Africa. 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 design and implementation affect citizen attitudes toward governance and political behavior in authoritarian regimes. My work combines qualitative and quantitative methods, including elite interviewing, focus groups, survey and field experiments, and computational approaches. At Princeton I have worked as a research assistant for the Arab Barometer; been an instructor for courses on international development, Islam and politics, the politics of empire, and applied quantitative analysis; and served as coordinator of the Politics department’s Qualitative Research Colloquium. In 2018-2019 I was a Fulbright grantee to Morocco, and before coming to Princeton I was a research fellow in the Middle East Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.