Welcome to my website!
I am a 2023/24 Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Bobst Center for Peace and Justice at Princeotn University. I hold a Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University.
My research focuses on the politics of tax noncompliance (evasion & avoidance), which I tackle from both the comparative and subnational perspectives. The key question guiding my work is how tax noncompliance by the rich influences both the demand and supply of progressive taxation and redistribution.
I have also worked on historical political science, studying the impact of war on nation/state-building.
My teaching covers both substantive and methodological areas: from the politics of the EU to the comparative politics of redistribution, to qualitative and quantitative research methods.
Research Interests
MACROAREAS
Comparative Political Economy
International Political Economy
Subnational Politics
Historical Political Science
TOPICS
Tax Evasion & Avoidance
Redistribution
Social Embeddedness
State Building
METHODS
Multi-Level Modeling
Design-Based Causal Inference
Surveys
Text Analysis
Education
Columbia University, New York, NY
Ph.D. in Political Science, (Expected 2023)
M.Phil. in Political Science (2020)
M.A. in Political Science (2018)
Yale University, New Haven, CT
B.A. in Economics and Political Science (2017)
Summa cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, &
Departmental Honors
Other Things I Love
CHESS
With white, the Queen's Gambit
(since before the show)
With black, the French Defense
HIKING
Foppolo -- a family locus amoenus
and also, these two cats
COMICS
Here are a couple all-time favorites:
Kingdom (2006-)
Watchman (1986)
La Profezia dell'Armadillo (2012)
Attack on Titan (2009-21)
Dylan Dog (1986-)
one of them is even blog-famous