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, the Inaugural Stephanie G. Neuman Fellow (2021-2022) at the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, and will be a Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy (Nov 2026-March 2027). My work has been published in Perspectives on Politics (forthcoming), Oxford Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion, Foreign Affairs, Comparative Education, Washington Post, Journal of Democracy, and China Brief.