ABOUT I am an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow (Political Science and Computer Science and Engineering) and a Data Science Postdoctoral Fellow (eScience Institute) at the University of Washington.My research examines the intersection between religion, state power, and human rights. Trained as a comparative and socio-legal political scientist, I collaborate with computer scientists to integrate qualitative and computational text analysis. This work seeks to triangulate evidence from qualitative, statistical, and natural language processing (NLP) analyses; to leverage text-as-data and other data science tools on messy, real-world, qualitatively coded data; and to amplify qualitative observations, analyses, and sensibilities to the scale of big data. I have conducted research in the United States, East Africa, and western Europe. See my curriculum vitae for more information.
CONTACT Department of Political Science University of Washington 101 Gowen Hall, Box 353530 Seattle, WA 98195