Welcome! I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. My research focuses on questions of

My book project, The Making of a Punitive State, which won the Harvard Department of Government Robert Noxon Toppan prize for the best dissertation on a subject of political science, examines when and why the United States became punitive across a range of social services.

I received my Ph.D. from the Department of Government at Harvard University in May 2023, where I was a Malcolm Weiner Scholar in Poverty and Justice. During the 2022-23 academic year, I was a Dissertation Research Fellow at the Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 2022, I graduated from the University of Chicago Law School with a Master of Legal Studies. I am a proud alum of the Borough of Manhattan Community College and Durham Technical Community College. I graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a B.A. in political science and philosophy in 2016.

When I’m not working, I enjoy relaxing, making art, and spending time on my latest hobby.