Education
Stockholm University | Stockholm, Sweden
Ph.D. Student, Department of Political Science | August 2023 -
Uppsala University | Uppsala, Sweden
MSc Political Science | June 2022
Sonoma State University | Rohnert Park, California
BA Political Science | June 2014
Experience
I have almost a decade of experience working in professional settings which have had a research-adjacent orientation, in the public, private, and academic sectors. These positions include:
Associate Program Officer at International IDEA, where I worked with International IDEA’s measurement of democracy the Global State of Democracy Indices
Associate researcher on the Demscore project, specifically the Historical Data Archive (H-DATA) module
Data manager for the project “A complete dataset of roll-call votes in the Swedish parliament, 1925-1993” where I was responsible for developing data pipelines to transform 40,000 PDF image pages of roll call votes into a dataset with over 4 million cases.
I have also worked as a survey analyst, both full time, and as a consultant.
Research interests
My research interests lie in comparative politics, and questions related to political behavior. I am specifically interested in how people’s political behavior is impacted by their social environment, and how political social norms and perceptions of others shift behaviors.
In my master’s thesis I dipped my toes into social media research, examining the extent of, and possible factors associated with, missing tweets among parliamentarians. I have pivoted away from social media research due to the increasing difficulty of API access.
Because of my past work at International IDEA and with the DEMSCORE project I am quite familiar with various cross-country comparative data sources, and the design and creation of these datasets.
Hobbies
Besides messing around with R, I enjoy all the outdoors activities that Sweden has to offer (mostly in three months where the weather is good). If you live in Sweden, and want to get out in nature more, I’d recommend the following websites:
- naturkartan.se (The Nature Map): This website has a ton of information about local nature reserves and public spaces.
- grvl.se: An excellent resource for gravel cycling mostly in Svealand.
- roadfinder.se: Helps you see how busy roads are. Useful for planning cycling trips in the countryside.
I also like movies. The best movie theater in Uppsala is Fyrisbiografen. I highly recommend the Uppsala Short Film Festival that takes place at the end of October. The great thing about short film festivals is that if one movie is bad you only have to suffer through it for a little bit.