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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. I defended my dissertation in August 2026. I am also an AALIMS junior fellow. As of September 2026, I am a Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Toulouse. .

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.