Welcome to my website!

I am a fifth-year PhD Candidate in Political Science at Michigan State University specializing in comparative politics and methods. I am also a research fellow at the Institute for Public Policy and Social Research and a visiting PhD student at the Chicago Center on Democracy at the University of Chicago. I am on the job market during the 2025-2026 academic year.

I study democratic backsliding, political violence, and authoritarian politics. My dissertation project focuses on the causes and consequences of opposition resistance to backsliding. It examines the nexus of domestic and international factors in shaping support for and the success of oppositions in backsliding democracies.

My work has been published or is forthcoming in Nature Scientific Data, the International Journal of Public Opinion Research, and American Politics Research, and been featured in the LSE American Politics and Policy Blog and the Institute for Liberty and Responsibility’s “Achsania” blog series.

I was born and raised in Bangkok, Thailand, before spending a decade in Tel Aviv, Israel. I completed my B.A. and M.A. in Government (with a specialization in conflict studies) at Reichman University in Herzliya, Israel. I also received an M.A. in Political Science from Michigan State University in 2023, and served as an Editorial Assistant for the Journal of Politics and a data consultant for the Democratic Erosion Consortium.

My research has been generously funded by the Institute for Humane Studies, the College of Social Science at Michigan State University, and the Institute for Liberty and Responsibility at Reichman University.