Political Science PhD Candidate
Department of Government, American University
I study how state-building campaigns make and remake ethnic and religious identities, and how those shifts shape public opinion and political behavior, using survey research, ecological inference, multilevel modeling, and computational methods.
My dissertation, State vs. Faith, examines how state-led secularization campaigns reshape religious identity, collective action, and long-run political backlash. Across its chapters, it asks how efforts to regulate, suppress, or recast religion can end up strengthening religious attachment and reorganizing political behavior.
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| Sep 13, 2025 | Conference: Presented “State vs. Faith: State-Led Secularization, Backlash, and Islamism among Muslims” at APSA 2025 |
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| May 30, 2025 | Workshop: Presented “State vs. Faith: State-led Secularization, Political Backlash and Political Islamism among Muslims” at the IRES Graduate Student Workshop, Chapman University |
| Dec 11, 2024 | Workshop: State Islam in the Middle East, hosted by SEPAD 📍Lancaster,UK |