Welcome! I am Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and the Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs at Syracuse University.

Before coming to Syracuse, I taught at the University of Mississippi and was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Empirical Studies of Conflict Program and the Center for Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law at Stanford University. I received my Ph.D. from the Department of Politics at New York University and my B.A. from Yale University.

I specialize in the comparative politics of the Global South, with a regional focus on the Middle East. My research examines the causes and consequences of public opinion, group identities, and political behavior in conflict settings and authoritarian regimes, especially Palestine and Syria. My book, The Revolution Within: State Institutions and Unarmed Resistance in Palestine (Cambridge University Press), investigates the causes of individual participation in anti-regime resistance using original survey, interview, and archival research in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. My new book project analyzes the ethnicization and deethnicization of civil conflict in comparative perspective, using within and cross-case comparisons from Syria, Yemen, Iraq, and Ukraine (with Alexandra Siegel). My articles have been published in Comparative Political Studies, the Journal of Conflict Resolution, and the Journal of Peace Research. I regularly teach courses on comparative politics, political conflict and violence, social movements, and Middle East politics.

My curriculum vitae is available here. For more information about my research, please visit my research page.