Research Interests
I am a fourth-year undergraduate student at Northwestern University finishing a double-major in Political Science and Philosophy. Currently, I am working on an undergraduate thesis within each major. My political science thesis consists of original research on the World Bank's anti-corruption reforms from 1987-2007 utilizing computer assisted text analysis of Project Appraisal Documents to compare the Bank's official reform timeline to actual organizational behavior changes with respect to lending. More broadly, I'm mainly interested international and supranational government organizations, political economy, and global economic governance. My philosophy thesis employs game theory and rational choice theory to evaluate friendship from a rational choice perspective, arguing that pursuing deep, honest friendships is ultimately the most rational both in terms of friendship outcomes and enhancing one's own rational capacity. My broader philosophical interests include rationality, logic, philosophy of mind, and (of course) political philosophy.
Links to work:
Brief Op-Ed on the AIIB
Thank You for Playing: A Rational Choice Theory of Friendship
A Power Analysis of German Response to the Greek Financial Crisis
