Hi 👋

I am a PhD Candidate and Adjunct Instructor in the Department of Government at American University. I am also a junior fellow with the Association for Analytic Learning about Islam and Muslim Societies (AALIMS).

I broadly study how institutional context and state-building campaigns make and remake ethnic and religious identities, and how those shifts shape public opinion and political behavior.

My dissertation, State vs. Faith, examines how state-led secularization campaigns reshape religious identity, collective action, and long-run political backlash. Across its chapters, it asks how efforts to regulate, suppress, or recast religion can end up strengthening religious attachment and reorganizing political behavior.

I am currently working with Dr. David Lublin on institutions and ethnic-party support, Dr. Elizabeth Suhay on meritocratic values across immigrant generations, and Dr. Sharan Grewal on radical-right effects on Muslim minority opinion in Europe.