Welcome!

I am an incoming Postdoctoral Visiting Fellow at the University of Notre Dame’s Kellogg Institute for International Studies. I received my Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University in 2025. You can find a copy of my CV here.

I am a comparativist with a regional focus on Latin America. I study the roots of democratic resilience, backsliding, and breakdown. Much of my work on these issues examines how organized crime and public insecurity undermine democratic institutions. I have conducted extensive fieldwork in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Mexico. You can read more about my research and publications here.

I have taught courses on the politics of organized crime, Central American and Latin American politics, authoritarianism, comparative politics, formal theory, and mixed methods. In 2021, I won the Derek C. Bok Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Teaching of Undergraduates. You can find more information about my teaching here.

I have an A.B. from Harvard College and an M.Sc. from Oxford, where I was a Weidenfeld-Hoffmann Scholar and a member of St. Antony’s College. I was born and raised in San Salvador, El Salvador.