I am a Ph.D. candidate in
political science at
UCLA. My dissertation research is on distributive politics: specifically, on the incidence and patterns of political manipulation of local public goods in India. I am broadly interested in questions of political economy, especially distributive politics, the provision of public goods, federalism, patronage and corruption, the effects of trade and capital mobility, and globalization more generally.
My undergraduate honors thesis looked at how international institutions are created and whether they can successfully change country behavior and world outcomes.
My wife and I try our best to take advantage of all that Southern California has to offer: biking to the beach, walking our dogs in the local mountains, skiing, hiking in the Sierra Nevadas, and swimming outdoors.
