I am a Teaching Fellow and incoming Ad Astra Fellow - Assistant Professor in Global Governance at the School of Politics and International Relations, University College Dublin. I work on comparative authoritarianism, political behaviour, and propaganda, with a regional focus on Russia and former Soviet states.
Before joining UCD, I worked as a lecturer at Trinity College Dublin and Dublin City University, where I also completed my PhD. In my PhD dissertation, I employed text-as-data methods to study the determinants of elite rhetoric and policymaking in Russia based on a wide range of unique data on public speeches and social media activity. My articles have been published or accepted for publication in American Journal of Political Science, Post-Soviet Affairs, Europe-Asia Studies, Politics & Policy and Cross-Cultural Research.
Before joining UCD, I worked as a lecturer at Trinity College Dublin and Dublin City University, where I also completed my PhD. In my PhD dissertation, I employed text-as-data methods to study the determinants of elite rhetoric and policymaking in Russia based on a wide range of unique data on public speeches and social media activity. My articles have been published or accepted for publication in American Journal of Political Science, Post-Soviet Affairs, Europe-Asia Studies, Politics & Policy and Cross-Cultural Research.