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I am a Ph.D. Candidate in Economics at the University of Pittsburgh.

I study the cultural and institutional forces that shape conflict, cooperation, and economic development. I ask how societies fracture or hold together, and why some prosper while others fall behind. Working across development economics, political economy, and economic history, I combine unique datasets with quasi-experimental methods and large-scale computational text analysis to bring causal evidence to questions that have long resisted empirical study.