Welcome!

I am an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Mannheim. Starting in the fall, I will be an LSA Collegiate Fellow (2025-2027) and incoming Assistant Professor (2027 - ) in the Department of Political Science at the University of Michigan. I hold a PhD in Political Science from Columbia University. 

I study the political economy of violence and environmental governance in Latin America. In my research, I combine quantitative methods for causal identification with observational data, in-depth fieldwork, and archival methods. My research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy,  and the Institute for Latin American Studies at Columbia University. I have also worked in foreign policy at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. 

My work is published in the Annual Review of Political Science, International Studies Quarterly, PS: Political Science & Politics and World Politics, among other journals.  My Google Scholar page is here.

Contact: 

efb2130[at]columbia[dot]edu