I received my PhD from the Government Department at Cornell University in January 2011 and spent the last academic year as a fellow at the Davis Center at Harvard University.  I’m currently a post-doctoral fellow at the Harriman Institute at Columbia University. My research agenda lies at the intersections of domestic and international governance, democracy and authoritarianism, and state - society relations. I have worked on a range of issues: regime change, stability, and quality; political parties; social movements and broader civil-society participation; popular protests; transnational relations and diffusion; comparative foreign policy; international organizations; and international security.