¡Hola! I am an Assistant Professor of Government at Claremont McKenna College.
My research focuses on the politics of law and order, police militarization, citizen-politician linkages, and urban security governance in Latin America. It combines observational data, survey experiments, and a range of qualitative methods and has appeared in Perspectives on Politics, the British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, and Urban Affairs Review.
I graduated with a Ph.D. in Government from Cornell University in May 2022 and a B.A. in Political Science and International Relations from ITAM in 2013. At Claremont McKenna College, I teach courses on Comparative, Latin American, and Mexican politics, as well as Research Methods.
I am currently on a one-year leave in Mexico City.