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I am the Research Director of the Democratic Erosion Consortium, a nonpartisan research, teaching, and policy collaboration dedicated to addressing the threat of democratic backsliding in the U.S. and around the world. I'm also a Lecturer on Government at Harvard University, where I teach courses on democracy, accountability, and politics in the Global South. I was previously a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies and earned my PhD from Harvard’s Government Department. My book project identifies a new threat to accountability, what I term 'anti-reelection bias'. Other research has been published in the Journal of Politics and World Development. Prior to Harvard, I worked in the field of international development in Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America.