Projects

In my primary research stream, I have examined different strategies of constitutional peacebuilding, including power-sharing and regional autonomy. My dissertation on this topic was awarded the 2021 ECPR Jean Blondel Prize and forms the basis of my book manuscript. From this research stream, I have published widely, including 8 published articles in leading disciplinary journals, including in American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, and European Political Science Review, and high-profile journals in the field of conflict research, including Journal of Peace Research (3x) and Journal of Conflict Resolution.

Currently, I am conducting a second major project on the causes and consequences of majority nationalism, such as white nationalists in the US and Hindu nationalists in India. I expect this to generate five major publications in the coming two years, one of which is currently under review and two of which exist in advanced working paper form. These examine how majority nationalist organizations delimit the nation, the conditions under which they (de-)radicalize, and how they affect patterns of political conflict and democratic quality.

Both research streams have been funded through three competitive grants: the university-wide Graduate Research Scholarship at University College London (4 years PhD), the ETH Fellowships Program (2 years postdoc), and project funding from the SNSF (2 years postdoc).

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