I am a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. I received my Ph.D. in Political Science from Binghamton University (SUNY) in 2025.

My research examines minority rights, ethnic conflict, forced displacement, and migration, with regional expertise in Europe and the Middle East. I study why states recognize or deny minority rights, how minorities mobilize to advance political claims, when armed groups restrict civilian movement, and how receiving societies respond to migrants and refugees.

I combine survey research, geospatial analysis, computational text analysis, and experimental methods. I have conducted fieldwork in Bulgaria (2024) and Turkey (2022).

My book project, Ethnic Mobilization and the Politics of Recognition, examines why democratic states vary in their recognition of minority rights. It combines an original dataset covering 58 ethnic minorities in 20 European countries from 1974 to 2024 with case studies of Turkey, Greece, and Bulgaria.

My research has appeared in Nationalism and Ethnic Politics and Nations and Nationalism. A coauthored article is at the revise-and-resubmit stage at the Journal of Refugee Studies. Several other solo-authored and coauthored manuscripts are currently under review at political science journals. 

For more information, see my CV.