PhD Candidate, UCLA · Historical Sociology of Elites

I study elites in the contexts of empire, war, revolution, and coups, exploring how military and political power are constructed, legitimized, and exercised.

My dissertation examines the micro-foundations of the British Empire, focusing specifically on the army officer corps between 1870 and 1914. Drawing on extensive archival records and a combination of comparative-historical and computational methods, I trace patterns of mobility within and across the empire to understand how imperial structures were built and sustained. I also work on Egypt and the broader Middle East.

I am a 2026–2027 Dissertation Fellow at the UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, and have previously been a visiting PhD student at the University of Cambridge and a summer associate and adjunct policy researcher at the RAND Corporation.

My research has been published in Comparative Political Studies. I have also written for the London Review of Books, New Left Review, Middle East Report, and Foreign Affairs.