About

I am a first-year sociology PhD student at Stanford University. I am also a Stanford CCSRE Emerging Scholar and an affiliate of the Center for American Political Studies at Harvard University. Substantively, I research topics related to surveillance tech, local political institutions, and racial inequality. Methodologically, I use quantitative methods to tackle both descriptive and causal questions, often leveraging large administrative datasets and survey experiments.

Although my research focuses on the US, I was born and raised in London, England. I have lived in the US for the past seven years and first moved across the pond for undergrad via the US-UK Fulbright Commission’s wonderful Sutton Trust US Programme. In 2022, I graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with an A.B. in Political Science. In 2025, I mastered out of MIT’s Political Science Ph.D. program, earning an S.M. in Political Science. I reapplied to Ph.D. programs that same year.

In between leaving MIT and (re)starting my doctoral training at Stanford, I was a Research Officer at LSE’s Phelan United States Centre and a Research Assistant at the Oxford Internet Institute. At LSE, I worked on several projects within Prof. Lauren Sukin’s “Dangerous Divisions: The Impact of Polarization on Nuclear Politics” research portfolio. At Oxford, I contributed to Prof. Helen Margetts’ survey data collection efforts, which examined trends in digital information exchange between the UK government and its citizens.