I am Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Politics at the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Southampton. Previously, I was a Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow at Nuffield College, University of Oxford. I received my PhD in Political Science from Northwestern University in 2019.
My research focuses predominantly on Latin American politics, with emphasis on Brazil. Using a combination of ethnography and survey experiments, my work investigates how poor people’s perception of politics affects their vote-choice, the resilience of informal electoral practices, and the underrepresentation of candidates from marginalised groups.
More recently, I have started a new research agenda that seeks to understand why some fake news pieces take root in some places but not in others, how authoritarian leaders can mobilise the poor through the spread of misinformation, and what would be the most effective messages and interventions to counter misinformation
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My research focuses predominantly on Latin American politics, with emphasis on Brazil. Using a combination of ethnography and survey experiments, my work investigates how poor people’s perception of politics affects their vote-choice, the resilience of informal electoral practices, and the underrepresentation of candidates from marginalised groups.
More recently, I have started a new research agenda that seeks to understand why some fake news pieces take root in some places but not in others, how authoritarian leaders can mobilise the poor through the spread of misinformation, and what would be the most effective messages and interventions to counter misinformation
Click here for my CV