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I am a PhD Candidate in the Department of Government and a graduate student affiliate of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.  I study international relations and political economy, in particular the politics of international trade.  I am also interested in Middle East politics and political methodology. 

My dissertation examines the political economy of trade in industries with intra-industry trade and firm heterogeneity in exporting. It develops a new model of firm preferences over trade liberalization and examines trade policy determination by a government in both cooperative and non-cooperative settings.  It also empirically documents the existence of divisions within industries over trade policy.