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I am a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University affiliated with the Conflict and Polarization Initiative and the Polarization and Social Change Lab. In Fall 2025, I will join The University of Toronto as an Assistant Professor of Political Science and Charles and Andrea Bronfman Chair in Israel Studies, cross-appointed with The Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies . I defended my dissertation at the Political Science Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in summer 2022, after spending two years as a Middle East Initiative predoctoral fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School.

My research focuses on the political effects and institutional remedies of conflict and polarization, centering around three main themes: institutions and intergroup relations, political behavior in the shadow of conflict, and experimental methodology. In my ongoing book project, titled "Prejudice Reduction at Scale: How Institutional Inclusion Reduces Social Exclusion" (under advance contract with Princeton University Press, Studies in Political Behavior Series), I explain why reducing prejudice in conflict-ridden societies is challenging and how minority institutional inclusion can reduce social exclusion. My work is regionally focused on Israel-Palestine but is comparative in nature, and I am continuously working on various studies based on data from across the Middle East, the United States, and Europe. My research has been published with Cambridge University Press, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, and Comparative Political Studies and received multiple awards from the American and Midwest Political Science Associations.