Welcome! I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of South Carolina.

My research interest centers on state repression and political violence, particularly onhow governments maintain control and order through various coercive institutions such as the police, military, courts, and local governments, as well as strategies including direct violence, nonviolent coercion, and infiltration through informants and spies. I am particularly interested in how networks of dissent shape state repression strategies. To that end, I work on developing network methods to enhance my research on repression and political violence in general.