I am an associate professor of political science at the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, University at Albany-State University of New York (SUNY). I am also a Nonresident Fellow at the Stimson Center and a Fellow at the Mahbub ul Haq Centre at LUMS.

My research interests include political violence, political behavior, the politics of religion and ethnicity, voters and foreign policy, and the politics of South Asia. My book, Under the Gun: Political Parties & Violence, was published by Cambridge University Press and received the 2024 APSA Robert Dahl Award for scholarship of the highest quality on the subject of democracy, the APSA Leon Epstein Award for best book on political parties and organization, and the APSA Francine Frankel Award for best book on South Asian politics. My work has been published or is forthcoming in the American Political Science Review, Journal of Politics, British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, Party Politics, ​International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Experimental Political Science, among others outlets. I also have a co-edited volume on political parties in Pakistan published by Georgetown University Press (available here) and Folio Books (available here).  
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My work has received generous support from Innovations for Poverty Action, International Growth Center, Facebook Foundational Integrity & Impact Research, the U.S. Institute of Peace, Stimson Center, the American Institute of Pakistan Studies, Institute of Development and Economic Alternatives, and several centers at the University at Albany, State University of New York and Yale University.

I previously worked at the International Crisis Group  and the International Organization for Migration in Islamabad and the American Civil Liberties Union  in New York. I have a PhD in Political Science from Yale University, an M.A. in International Relations from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and a B.A. in English from Haverford College.

You can contact me at: [email protected]