Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science and International Relations, Tecnológico de Monterrey
Department of Political Science and International Relations, Tecnológico de Monterrey
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I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the Tecnológico de Monterrey (Monterrey campus). Previously, I was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Princeton University's Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance (2024-25). My research interests include international development, political economy of foreign aid, political violence, sub-Saharan Africa, experimental methods, mixed-methods, (mis)perceptions, and (mis)information.
I received my PhD in Government from the Department of Government at the University of Texas at Austin. My dissertation, "Empowering Developing Countries: Combating Misinformation and Correcting (Mis)perceptions of Foreign Aid," examined how perceptions of aid are formed and how (mis)perceptions, influenced by (mis)information, can be corrected or worsened in developing countries. In this work, I employ a mixed-methods approach, including survey experiments, field experiments, and qualitative in-depth interviews and focus group discussions. This project received support from various competitive research grants, including the APSA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant funded by the National Science Foundation, Texas Politics Research Grant, Clements Center for National Security's Grants in History, Strategy, and Statecraft, and the Carl J. Tamara M. Tricoli Endowed Fellowship. I was also team lead at the Innovations for Peace and Development (IPD) (2022-24) and a Graduate Fellow at the Clements Center for National Security (2020-24). And my work has been published in PNAS Nexus. I also completed two degrees from Yonsei University (Seoul, South Korea): a bachelor's in economics and international studies in Underwood International College and a master's concentrating on international development cooperation and international trade and economic development in the Graduate School of International Studies. |
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What you do makes a difference. And you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
— Jane Goodall
— Jane Goodall