About Me
Welcome! I am a Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science and International Relations at the University of Southern California, with an emphasis on International Political Economy and Political Methodology. I am also a Graduate Research Assistant at The Security and Political Economy Lab. My research focuses on state–business relations, and in particular on how political uncertainty shapes firm behavior.
My dissertation examines how firms recognize and respond to political risk. By studying different sources of political uncertainty, I aim to understand how such risk affects firm behavior, through which channels it reaches them, and how firms adapt their strategies when the political environment shifts around them. Empirically, I combine establishment-level data on subsidiary placements, a large language model pipeline to analyze corporate textual data, and survey experiments.
You can access my CV here. (Last updated: May 2026).
Interests
- State–Business Relations
- Firms’ Nonmarket Strategies
- Text-as-Data Methods & Machine Learning
Education
M.A. in Political Science and International Relations, 2026
University of Southern CaliforniaB.A. in Economics and International Affairs, 2023
Wagner College
Research
Working Papers
Who Influences Whom? Analyzing the Interplay of Mainstream and Outsider Parties in Social Media Campaigns (with Valentina Gonzalez-Rostani).
Social Ties and Diaspora Managers: Evidence from a Multi-Country Survey (with Junbeom Bahk, Benjamin A.T. Graham, and Sooyeon Kim).
Work in Progress
Automation, Risk, and Public Legitimacy (with Valentina Gonzalez-Rostani).