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I am Assistant Professor (with tenure) in the School of Politics and International Relations and a Fellow with the Geary Institute for Public Policy at University College Dublin. I am also a Research Affiliate with the Violence and Transitional Justice Lab at the University of Notre Dame. I hold a PhD in political science from the University of Notre Dame.  My work explores the causes and consequences of political and criminal violence. I am also interested in issues of conceptualization, measurement, and mixed methods research design.

My book Accountability Shock: Why Transitional Justice Deters Criminal Wars in New Democracies (co-authored with Guillermo Trejo and Juan Albarracín) is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press. My research has also appeared, or is forthcoming, in International Organization, the Journal of Peace Research, Sociological Methods & Research, and Studies in Comparative International Development, among others. 

I am the recipient of a 2025 European Research Council Starting Grant (€1.5 million) to study the development of criminal governance in unexpected contexts, which will involve extensive fieldwork in Argentina, Costa Rica and Chile, beginning in 2026. My work has also been supported by the National Agency for Research and Innovation in Uruguay, Evidence in Governance and Politics, Notre Dame Global, USAID’s Research and Innovation Fellowship Program, and the Kellogg Institute for International Studies.

You can find a copy of my cv here.