I am an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Yale University. Before coming to Yale, I was an assistant professor in the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University and a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy.

My research interests are at the intersection of political economy, comparative politics, development economics, and economic history. My work has been published in leading journals in political science and economics, including the American Journal of Political Science, The Journal of Politics, World Politics, The Journal of Development Economics, and The Journal of Urban Economics, among other outlets. My first book, The Politics of Exit: Emigration, Collective Action, and Agrarian Reform in Mexico is forthcoming at Oxford University Press. I received a joint Ph.D. in Political Science and Agricultural and Applied Economics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.