Welcome to my site! I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at McGill University, where I am a member of the Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship (CSDC) and an Associate Member of the Centre on Population Dynamics (CPD). I completed my Ph.D. at the University of Washington in Seattle.
Broadly speaking, I am interested in democratization and democratic development. Much of my research addresses the role that information plays in developing democratic polities. I am also interested in advancing quantitative methods to measure the effect of information. I maintain active research projects in the former Soviet Union, Eastern and Southern Africa, and Mexico. My work has appeared in a broad range of journals in political science and adjacent fields, such as the American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, the Journal of Politics, the Journal of Public Administration Research & Theory, and Political Analysis, among others. You can see more about my academic work on my CV.
Before returning to academia, I worked for the National Democratic Institute covering Kenya and the Caucasus Research Resource Centers covering Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia.
I am an avid bicycle tourer. You can see a photo of a bicycle tour from Oaxaca here.