She was a postdoctoral research associate at the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University from 2009-2011. Her general research interests include mass ethnic violence, comparative state formation, and civil wars. Her book manuscript, Territorial Conflict and Ethnic Cleansing: Europe and Beyond, develops a theory that explains the conditions under which states decide to deport or exterminate ethnic groups living in their territory. She received her doctorate from the University of Chicago in 2009.