Welcome!

I am an Associate Professor of International Studies at Pepperdine University. I hold a Ph.D. in Political Science from UCLA and was a pre-doctoral research fellow in the Belfer Center’s Middle East Initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

With a focus on the Middle East and North Africa, my research examines the political and social legacies of displacement and war, intergroup relations and social solidarity in post-war contexts, and the role that civil society can play in collectively mobilizing people for political change.  

My research has been funded by a Belfer Center Middle East Initiative (MEI) fellowship, an Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC) Herb York Global Security fellowship, a Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS) TRE grant, and the Department of Education's Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) summer fellowship.