My PhD research broadly concerns state capacity and state-citizen relations, considering the variation in infrastructure development across territory and the non-state entities involved in such projects. 

I am currently pursuing a project about private development initiatives taking place within the cocoa industry. 

My research assistantship with Professor Albertus has been on projects that evaluate the politics of land redistribution.

This has included a paper on Franco-era land redistribution policies and voting patterns in the 1978 vote for the new Spanish Constitution (forthcoming in the Journal of Politics),

as well as a project evaluating Peruvian indigenous communities, legal rights over their traditional land, and opinions of democracy. The Peru project is on-going.

My MA Thesis was a case study analysis which investigated the consequences of four hydroelectric dams on political instability in the surrounding regions, as a result of local communities' physical and economic displacement.