Graduated! + So indebted to my family, friends, and advisors at Berkeley for their support. Very excited to join Stanford's King Center on Global Development for a postdoc (26-27) before starting at the University of California, Davis as an Assistant Professor of Political Science in 2027! 🌲💛💙

Attending EPSS + researching South Asia? Apply before May 13th to attend the pre-conference workshop!!

We are organizing a pre-conference workshop at EPSS on the Politics of South Asia. To present, discuss, or attend, please submit your info by May 13th: forms.gle/pXaKtTLifJAY... Please circulate widely! If questions, contact me, @aliz-toth.bsky.social or @simonchauchard.bsky.social!

Thrilled that this is out at the APSR! 😀 I document how male elites creatively adapt to electoral reform in Indian village councils. Relevant for how we think about: 1) limits of reforms meant to equalize power, 2) (male) elite capture, 3) the "proxy" representative debate. A (late) 🧵

New study finds the current heat wave in the West would be "virtually impossible" without human-caused climate pollution. We're on the verge of breaking an all-time March heat record for the US today/tmrw. www.cnn.com/2026/03/20/w...

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New article out in World Development! 🚨 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... (ungated if u click now) With Rachel Brulé and @alyssarheinze.bsky.social, we explain and document some of the paradoxical (and actually inequality-building) consequences of India´s extensive gender quota system.

We wrote on the topic of proxyism and (male) elite capture in rural Indian for the @thejop.bsky.social blog! (with @alyssarheinze.bsky.social & Rachel Brulé) See post here: ubwp.buffalo.edu/jopblog/ Full article: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...