I am a Departmental Lecturer in the Comparative Politics of Latin America at the Department of Politics and International Relations and the School of Global and Area Studies at the University of Oxford. I received my PhD in Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where I specialized in comparative politics and research methods.

I currently teach Introduction to the Practice of Politics, Comparative Government, and Politics in Latin America for undergraduate students in the PPE and History and Politics programmes. I also co-convene the Qualitative Research Methods Seminar and developed and teach the module Issues in the Political Economy of Latin America at the MSc and MPhil in Latin American Studies programme offered by the Latin American Centre at OSGA.

My research interests concentrate on the political economy of formal and informal labour markets, focusing on how state regulation over labour markets and social policy initiatives affect and are affected by collective action by informal workers, labour unions, and policy experts in emerging economies of the Global South.

My book project, The Politics of Informality and Redistribution in Latin America, studies the political implications of labour market informality. In other ongoing projects, I study variation in labour legislation across countries in Latin America, labour unions internal politics in the post-market reform era, and the impact of social policy on low-income citizens political participation.

Before joining Oxford, I was a Research Associate at Cardiff Business School, an LSE Fellow in the Department of Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science. I also held pre-doctoral positions at the Robert Schuman Centre at the European University Institute, and the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame.