Joel Mokyr invited me to present my JMP at an econ workshop when I was still a grad student (the only grad student among presenters). I was terrified. Spotting me lost at dinner, he came over to discuss my work with genuine curiosity. That early encouragement meant a lot. Glad to see him honored.

Excited that my paper “Choosing Sides: The Price for Battlefield Loyalty under Autocracy” has been conditionally accepted at Comparative Political Studies. Since everything is backwards nowadays, I decided to publish the final paper of my dissertation first.

Much-awaited book from my favorite scholar and friend! It will be a perfect addition for my new syllabus on ethnic politics.

Excited to share that I will be joining the Harvard Kennedy School this summer as an Assistant Professor. I will miss my wonderful colleagues & amazing department at Vanderbilt. I am grateful for my family, friends, dissertation committee & the academic community for their support.

The International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2) will be here at Penn in Philadelphia July 17-20 '24 & the deadlines for tutorials (2/2) & abstracts (3/3) are fast approaching. See the conference website for more--and consider applying! ic2s2-2024.org

So happy to see our paper on repression and combat motivation (w/ Arturas Rozenss & Yuri Zhukov) forthcoming in American Economic Journal: AE. This was one of my favorite long-term projects to work on, and I could not have asked for a better team of co-authors. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Thank you so much, Scott! Very honored!