About

I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, College Park.

As a comparativist, I study representation and political behavior — specifically, how citizens join, switch, and leave political parties — with a regional focus on Latin America. My dissertation uses large-scale administrative data from Panama, Brazil, and Chile, survey experiments, and extensive fieldwork and qualitative data to explore party membership as a distinct organizational behavior with its own political logic, rather than a simple marker of partisan identity.

Methodologically, I combine quantitative, experimental, and computational approaches with fieldwork and qualitative research to trace how party affiliation and other forms of political engagement are lived, contested, and understood across different levels of analysis. At Maryland, I am a member of the Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Computational Social Science (ILCSS) and the Latin American Studies Center (LACS).

Before joining Maryland, I worked as a researcher at the Institute for Democratic Studies at Panama’s Electoral Tribunal, and I have taught political science courses at Universidad Católica Santa María la Antigua since 2017. I hold an M.Sc. in Democracy and Comparative Politics from University College London, funded by the Chevening Scholarship.

Research Interests

Comparative Politics Political Parties & Party Systems Political Behavior Democratization & Regime Transition Computational Social Science Latin America

Affiliations

Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Computational Social Science (ILCSS) · Latin American Studies Center (LACS), University of Maryland