POLITICAL SCIENCE
Ph.D. Candidate, UCLA
How political leaders build and sustain power.
Through policy. Through language.
ABOUT ME
I am a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at UCLA. I study how leaders build and maintain political power through the policies they adopt and the language they use.
My research brings together political economy and the study of political discourse. I combine computational text analysis and cross-national data to examine populist rhetoric, international political discourse, and the durability of climate policy.
My coauthored research on fossil fuel subsidy reform is published in Nature Climate Change.
FEATURED PUBLICATION
Nature
Climate Change
2025 · Research article
Why do subsidy reforms fail to last? Using monthly data from 21 major gasoline-subsidizing countries, we find that reforms introduced since 2016 became more frequent and ambitious, but less durable.
My contributionData analysis and interpretation of the results.
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS
POPULIST RHETORIC · VENEZUELA
I trace shifts in anti-elitist rhetoric across Hugo Chávez’s Aló Presidente broadcasts, using text analysis to study changes in meaning over time.
Explore the projectINTERNATIONAL DISCOURSE · UNGA
I examine how populism and ideology relate to the language of sovereignty and international cooperation in United Nations General Assembly speeches.
Explore the projectCONTACT
For research inquiries, collaborations, or a current CV.