She studies fiscal capacity, inequality, ethnic politics, and voting behavior, both sub-nationally in India and crossnationally. She completed her undergraduate education at the National University of Singapore and holds a master’s degree in public policy from the University of California, Berkeley. She is currently a doctoral candidate at Columbia University. Her dissertation examines the relationship between democratization and taxation. Using colonial India as the illustrative case, she demonstrates how elites can manipulate the fiscal bureaucracy to limit the redistributive potential of the state after political expansion. She has published in World Politics, American Journal of Political Science, Party Politics, and Asian Survey.