About Me

I am a PhD candidate in political science at the Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences and a research associate and lecturer at the Chair of Political Economy at the University of Mannheim.

My research focuses broadly on comparative politics, political institutions, political economy, and public policy analysis, as well as quantitative research methods. Specific interests include gender and politics, women in leadership positions, and gender quotas and political representation. My dissertation looks at women’s access to political leadership positions.

Work in Progress:

• Gender Quotas and the Path to Power: Evidence from Italy

• Power in the Post-Conflict Period: The Effect of Armed Conflict on Women’s Political Leadership Positions (with Cosima Meyer)

• Why Do Women Speak Less? Disentangling Gender Differences in European Parliament Speechmaking (with Verena Kunz)

I teach introductory and advanced undergraduate seminars in comparative politics and international relations at the University of Mannheim.

• International Political Economy (advanced undergraduate seminar, fall 2020)

• Political Economy of Gender (advanced undergraduate seminar, spring 2020)

• Women in Politics (advanced undergraduate seminar, spring 2019)

• Gender and Policy in Comparative Perspective (introductory undergraduate seminar, spring 2018)

• Comparative Political Institutions (introductory undergraduate seminar, spring 2017)

I received the 2018 Teaching Award from the Center for Doctoral Studies in the Social Sciences (CDSS) at the University of Mannheim.