Welcome

I am a scholar of comparative politics, studying state‑formation, contentious politics, and cleavage formation in Africa and Asia, with a primary regional focus on the Middle East and North Africa.

In my ongoing and completed research, I show that postcolonial states supply high schools and mosques unevenly and strategically to facilitate social control, with the goal of creating compliant and demobilized citizenries. These processes, prevalent in nations with histories of nondemocratic rule, leave behind manufactured meritocracies, territorialized marginalizations, and enduring political divisions.

My dissertation, Fellahin into Frenchmen: Social Control and Educational Supply in the Postcolonial Maghreb, explores the politicized supply of secondary education in postcolonial Morocco, Tunisia and West Africa.

I am grateful to be advised by Amaney Jamal, Mark Beissinger, and Elizabeth Nugent.

I am on the 2025-2026 academic job market.