Welcome

I’m Professor of international relations at Oxford University, a member of the Department of Politics and International Relations, and a fellow at St Catherine’s College.

My research focuses on the domestic politics of international relations with an emphasis on international organizations and their effect on domestic conflict and elections. Specifically, my research falls into three areas: international democracy assistance; the causes and consequences of election violence; and international organizations’ membership politics (withdrawals and suspensions). In my first book, I develop and test a theory of how international organizations can influence election violence by changing election credibility. In my second book, I examine state exit from international organizations.

My research is published or forthcoming in British Journal of Political Science, International Studies Quarterly, Review of International Organizations, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Peace Research, Cambridge University Press and Cornell University Press. My work has been supported by the British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship, the Philip Leverhulme Prize, the U.S. Institute of Peace, the World Bank, and the Swedish government’s Folke Bernadotte Academy.

I received my Ph.D. in International Relations, Methodology, and Comparative Politics at UW-Madison; I also spent a year at Duke. I am originally from Berlin where I received a Postdoctoral research fellowship and previously an M.A. at Free University Berlin, and worked at the Social Science Research Center. I have been a research fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, at the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) in Washington, D.C., and a consultant at the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP). Before joining Oxford, I spent four years at University College London and four years at Florida State University.

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