Research Focus

Comparative politics, development, political economy, Global South, elections, democratic erosion, organized crime, violence, corruption, clientelism, electoral fraud, mixed methods analysis.

Education

PhD Political Science, Tulane University. (2025).

Dissertation: “Games of Mutual Extortion: Fuel Theft, Electoral Competition, and Electoral Integrity in Mexico”.

Committee: Virginia Oliveros (Chair), Eduardo Silva, and Moises Arce.

MA Political Science, Tulane University. (2022).

MPA Public Administration, Texas State University (2018).

BA Psychology (cum laude), Texas State University (2015).

Academic Employment & Teaching Experience

Tulane University
Research Fellow 2025- , Center for Inter-American Policy and Research

Pre-Doctoral Fellow 2024-2025, Center for Inter-American Policy and Research

Lecturer Fall 2025-

Organized Crime & Politics

Teaching Assistant 2019-2022

Scope & Methods

Introduction to Comparative Politics

Political Thought in the West

Publications, Presentations, & Works in Progress

“Incumbent-Sponsored Collusion: Fuel Theft and Electoral Competition in Mexico”. 2025. (Under Review).

"Monitoring Capacity of Clientelistic Exchanges in Criminal Governance Settings”. 2025. (In Progress).

“Electoral Fraud in Local Elections in Post-Transition Mexico”. 2025. (In Progress). “Organized Crime and Electoral Competition in Mexico”. Southern Political Science Association Meeting. 2024.

“The Transformation of the Mexican Party System After the 2018 Election”. 2025. (in progress)

“Oil Theft and Elections in Mexico: A Natural Experiment”. American Political Science Association Annual Meeting. 2020.

“Conductive Capacity of the State: A Preliminary Assessment of Mexican Political Institutions Since the Merida Initiative”. International Graduate Research Conference. 2017.

Non-Academic Employment

MagnaCerta, Inc. Research and Development Consultant. 2020.

The Institute for Government Innovation. Associate Research Consultant. 2016-2017.

Project 1: Policy impact analysis on proposed legislation to raise truck weight limits in Texas. 2016.

Project 2: Organizational assessment and record digitalization planning for the City of Austin’s Development Services Department. 2017.

Project 3: Service delivery optimization for the Texas Department of Public Safety. 2017.           

Grants & Fellowships

Liberal Arts Dissertation Fellowship. Tulane University 2023-2024.

Graduate Fellowship. Tulane University. 2018-2023.

Tinker Foundation Grant for Summer Research in Mexico. 2022. 

SREB State Doctoral Scholars Program Grant & Fellowship. 2018-2021. 

Software

R, Stata, SAS, SPSS, JMP, ArcGIS, QGIS.