Welcome! I am an Assistant Professor of Politics at New York University. My research interests are in international political economy and environmental politics.

Most of my current research focuses on the following questions:

  1. When can governments effectively compensate the losers from transformative economic change?

  2. What role do scientific knowledge and uncertainty play in international environmental cooperation?

I study these questions in the context of societies undergoing transformative economic changes, such as those brought about by trade, technology, and climate change.  

I was previously a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Niehaus Center for Global Governance at Princeton University from 2023-24. I received my Ph.D. in Political Science at Stanford University in 2023.

You can find my cv here.

Publications

  • “The Global Politics of Scientific Consensus: Evidence from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change” (2025).
    International Organization. (link)

  • “Extreme Weather Events and the Politics of Climate Change Attribution” (2022).
    Science Advances, with Rebecca Perlman (link)

  • “Information, Candidate Selection, and the Quality of Representation: Evidence from Nepal” (2021).
    Journal of Politics , with Saad Gulzar and Binod Paudel (link)

Working Papers

  • "Industrial Policy as Compensation for Economic Decline: Evidence from Post-War Britain"
    (working paper)

  • “Adjusting to Obsolescence: Deindustrialization and Economic Nationalism in Colonial South Asia”
    (working paper)

  • “Confiscating the Gains from Trade: Transportation Innovation and Political Conflict in the First Era of Globalization”

In Progress

  • “Compensating Places: Political Tradeoffs of Placed-Based Economic Policies”, with Alexander Gazmararian

  • “Concealed Cooperation: Do Hidden Emissions Inflate Climate Pledges?”

  • “Why do Communities Reject Renewable Energy Technologies?”