Welcome! I am a first-year PhD student in the Department of Political Science at Yale University. My research is in comparative politics and international political economy assessing energy and environmental politics. My primary focus is on how the renewable energy transition is changing politics within and across states. I study questions of political finance, international cooperation, and political development from the perspectives of energy democracy, energy security, climate change, and environmental justice. Regionally, most of my work is on EU member-states; I am a Graduate Student Affiliate with the European Studies Council, housed within the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale.
Prior to Yale, I earned a Bachelor of Arts from Washington University in St. Louis, with majors in Political Science (comparative politics & quantitative methods concentrations) and Environmental Analysis. At WashU, I earned the Todd Lewis Friedman Memorial Prize for Outstanding Work in Comparative or International Politics in 2024, Environmental Studies Award for Academic Achievement in 2024, and the Robert H. Salisbury Prize for Initiative, Leadership, and Service in Political Science in 2023. My undergraduate work at WashU explored topics including inter-generational environmental justice in fossil fuel communities, greenwashing campaigns, and infrastructural policy adaptation. Outside of class at WashU, I worked for several years as an associate for the WashU Climate Change Program (now under the Center for the Environment) and interned in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance.