Ph.D. in Government and Politics
Curriculum Vitae
Education
M.Sc. in Democracy and Comparative Politics
B.A. in Law and Political Science
Research Experience
Research Assistant for Prof. Fiona Shen-Bayh
Conducted literature review, data collection, and text analysis for projects on constitutional entrenchment and judicial institutions.
Research Assistant for Prof. Jóhanna Birnir, All Minorities at Risk (AMAR) Project
Built variable-level dataframes to automate data coding for an expanded successor to the Minorities at Risk dataset (scaling from 286 to nearly 1,200 ethnic groups), sourcing and archiving supporting documentation (news reports, State Department human rights reports) to enable LLM-assisted replication of the original coding process.
Research Assistant for Prof. David Cunningham
Created a dataset for a cross-national project on UN peace operations.
Research Assistant for Prof. Shibley Telhami
Wrote memos and briefs for the Anwar Sadat Center for Peace and Development.
Research Assistant for Prof. Marcus Johnson
Designed a survey experiment fielded in Panama, including experiment design, pre-analysis plan, data cleaning, and preliminary analysis; supported data collection for a book project on Panamanian racial politics.
Professional Experience
Researcher
Political representation, parties and party systems, electoral behavior.
Executive Assistant to the Ombudsman
Counsel
Consultant
Consultant
Grants & Fellowships
- GVPT Summer Methods Training Grant (UMD)
- Virginia Lee Lussier Summer Research Fellowship (UMD)
- Comparative Politics Field Grant (UMD)
- Jacob K. Goldhaber Travel Grant (UMD)
- Graduate School Summer Fellowship (UMD)
- Graduate School Summer Fellowship (UMD)
- GVPT Methods Field Summer Grant (UMD)
- Graduate School Summer Fellowship (UMD)
- Dean’s Fellowship (UMD)
- Chevening Scholarship (UK Government)
Conference Presentations
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When Legacies Ripen: Authoritarianism, Elections, and the Sources of Partisan Attachment in the Dominican Republic
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Who Asks Matters: Legitimacy, Warm Glow, and Citizen Evaluations of Party Membership in Latin America
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Generational Replacement, Partisanship and Party System Deinstitutionalization: Evidence from Panama
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Generational Replacement, Partisanship and Party System Deinstitutionalization: Evidence from Panama
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Confirmation vs. Refutation Frames in Partisan Appeals: Assessing Candidates’ Competence in the Argentine Presidential Runoff
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The Bitcoin Shock: Cryptocurrency Adoption, Issue Salience and Audience Considerations in Bukele’s El Salvador
Invited Talks
- “Joining a Discredited Institution: Legitimacy and the Meanings of Party Membership in Latin America.” CIEPS, Panama, August 19, 2026
- “Time to Join: Political Timing, Competition and the Structure of Party Affiliation in Panama.” INED, Panama, August 5, 2026
- “Bitcoin Shock: Crypto, Issue Salience and Audience Considerations in Bukele’s El Salvador.” LACS Graduate Lecture Series, University of Maryland, November 19, 2025
- “The Panama Canal in Global Politics: Sovereignty, Trade, and Influence.” CAPC / CIPR, Tulane University, February 20, 2025
- “Elections in Panama.” INED, Panama, May 13, 2024
Methods Training
- Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (SICSS), UCLA, June 8–12, 2026
- 10th Annual IPSA–USP Summer School in Concepts, Methods and Techniques in Political Science and International Relations, University of São Paulo, January 14–February 1, 2019
Skills
Methods
Panel and time-series cross-sectional data, survival models, causal inference, generalized linear modeling, computational text analysis, digital trace data, web-scraping and data collection, and large-scale administrative dataset construction.
Fieldwork & Archival Research
Focus group design and facilitation, elite interviewing, and archival research and digitization.
Programming
R, Python, LaTeX, Git, Qualtrics.
Languages
Spanish (native), English (fluent), Portuguese (proficient).