I am a Lecturer in the Discipline of Political Science at Columbia University, and Senior Researcher at Tibet Action Institute. My research examines the influence of religious beliefs on political preferences and conflict behavior, and the links between transnational repression and political participation. My dissertation, titled “Religious Routes to Conflict Mitigation: Three Papers on Buddhism, Nationalism, and Violence,” is advised by Andrew Nathan and Jack Snyder. I was a Charlotte Newcombe Dissertation Fellow (2023-2024) with the Institute for Citizens and Scholars, and the Inaugural Stephanie G. Neuman Fellow (2021-2022) at the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies. My work has been published by the Oxford Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion, Foreign Affairs, Comparative Education, the Washington Post, the Journal of Democracy, China Brief, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict.