Welcome

I am a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at the University of California, San Diego.

My research examines how gender bias shapes the evaluation, strategic behavior, and political survival of national leaders during international security crises.

Combining media analysis, supervised machine learning, and survey experiments, I study how gendered expectations influence how leaders are framed, how publics update their beliefs in response to new information, and how these dynamics affect leaders’ incentives to adopt hawkish strategies under external threats.

Substantively, my work speaks to debates on leadership, conflict, and gender in international relations, offering new evidence on when and why female leaders face heightened vulnerability in high-stakes security environments.