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 in 2025. 

My research examines state responses to minority claims, forced displacement, and migration, with regional expertise in Europe and the Middle East. I study when governments recognize demands over language, religion, citizenship, and political participation and when they answer those demands through security policy instead, along with the political behavior that follows from exclusion and insecurity among minorities, migrants, and refugees. I use survey data, original datasets, geospatial analysis, text-as-data methods, and experimental designs. 

My current collaborative projects extend this agenda to Africa and other cross-national settings, examining how climate-related pressures influence migration intentions and how regional immigration climates affect attitudes toward migrants among majority and minority populations. 

My book project, Ethnic Mobilization and the Politics of Recognition, examines why some democratic states recognize minority rights while others deny them, using an original dataset covering 58 ethnic minorities in 20 European countries from 1974 to 2024 alongside case studies of Turkey, Greece, and Bulgaria. 

My research has been published in Nationalism and Ethnic Politics and Nations and Nationalism. Additional manuscripts are under review and in preparation for submission to peer-reviewed journals. 

For more information, see my CV.