• Project

    The project aims to analyze European state security responses to political violence to fulfill the following objectives: (1) identifying precisely the political contexts in which the violence occurred; (2) examining how relationships between empirical data on political violence rates and the determined sources of violence function as indicators of greater trends of violent extremism in specific countries. As applied to Greece, Romania, and Ukraine as national case studies and as subjects for comparative analysis, the fulfillment of these objectives within this project offers promise in developing more effective responses to political violence and in assessing political systems across a vital security region.

    The project orients itself around the following research question: How do state security forces in Greece, Romania, and Ukraine respond to and mitigate politically violent events? From this core question, important sub-questions follow that reflect the particular regional focus of the project. For example, does European Union (EU) membership have a demonstrable effect on how the violence is responded to? Does a previous legacy of illiberalism impact the current structures of state security institutions? Does a given state's security response vary depending on who the perpetrators are?

     

     

     

  • Research Group

  • Career

    Education

     
    04/2021 Member of the Graduate School of Politics (GraSP), Institute for Political Science, University of Münster.
      Master's studies of International Development at University of Bristol
      Bachelor's studies of Political Science at Southwestern University
     
    Positions
    Since 08/2019 Program Lead, Political Violence Targeting Women at Robert Strauss Center for International Security and Law, The University of Texas
    04/2017-08/2019 Assistant Director at Robert Strauss Center for International Security and Law, The University of Texas
    03/2015-04/2017 Program Manager at Robert Strauss Center for International Security and Law, The University of Texas
    10/2013-12/2014 Campaign Manager at Diane Henson for Chief Justice of the Third Court of Appeals
    12/2012-09/2013 Fellow, Training & Outreach at The Atlas Project
    08/2012-11/2012 Field Manager at Elizabeth Warren for United States Senate
     

     

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  • Further Information

    Research interests

    • National security
    • International security
    • Domestic extremism
    • Gender security
    • Democratic governance

    Further memberships

    • Mentor and Member, Women's Foreign Policy Group;
    • Working Group Member, CNA Corporation;
    • Alumna, George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies;
    • Member, Women In International Security Brussels