About

Education

• Ph.D. in International Political Economy, University of Nottingham, 2020

  Dissertation focused on the political economy of post-communist transformations in the Baltic states.

• M.Sc. Social Research Methods, University of Sussex, 2015

• M.A. in International Relations, University of Sussex, 2014

• B.A. in International Relations, Queen Mary University of London, 2013

Academic appointments

• Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, 2022–present

• Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Aleksanteri Institute (Finnish Centre for Russian and Eastern European Studies), University of Helsinki, 2021–2022

• Lecturer in Politics, Nottingham Trent University, 2020–2021

Grants, fellowships and awards

• Research Grant for Emerging Scholars, Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies, 2023

• Kone Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, 2020

• Trajectories of Change Ph.D. Scholarship, ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius Foundation, Hamburg, 2016

• Vice-Chancellor’s Research Excellence Ph.D. Scholarship, School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham, 2015

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