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 SUNY 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 respond to those demands with security policy instead. A second line of this work traces the political behavior that follows from exclusion and insecurity among minorities, migrants, refugees, and host societies.

I primarily use quantitative methods with survey, text, and geographic data. I have also conducted fieldwork research in Bulgaria (2024) and Turkey (2022). 

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.