I am a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Department of Communication Science. Under a Horizon Europe Grant, I am working on the GAPREP project that investigates the relationship between social group-based appeals and political representation.
I recieved my PhD in Political Science from Johns Hopkins University in August 2021, and from 2021 to 2023 I was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University College Dublin, School of Politics and International Relations, working with WP6 of the Horizon2020 Observatory of Political Texts in European Democracies—A European Research Infrastructure (OPTED) Project.
My research interests include comparative party politics, group appeals, political representation, intra-party candidate selection, and text-as-data, motivated by questions of the representative relationship between political parties and voters as a core aspect of modern democracies. Focusing on how political parties as collective bodies of representation go about shaping their relationship with society, I use computational text analysis methods to examine patterns of group-based appeals in parties' election materials over time and across countries.
