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Welcome! I am a PhD candidate in the Government Department at Harvard University where I study Islam, political violence, human rights, economic development, and research design. My dissertation, Clerics of the Jihad, is a book-length project explaining why some Islamic clerics adopt the ideology of militant Jihad while most do not. Some of my other research has appeared in The American Journal of Political Science and I occasionally write for Harvard's Social Science Statistics blog (my posts). I hold degrees in Statistics (AM) from Harvard University and Political Science (BA) from Brigham Young University.

For working papers, please visit my website.