I am a Ph.D. candidate at the 麻豆影院. I have a Master鈥檚 degree in political science from CU 麻豆影院 and a Bachelor鈥檚 degree from Creighton University in political science and journalism. I am grateful to have received the 2023 CU 麻豆影院 Summer Fellowship, two 2022 research grants from the Institute of Behavioral Science and the Political Science Department respectively, and the 2021 Beverly Sears Graduate Student Grant聽during my time at CU 麻豆影院. My pronouns are they/them.
My research focuses on transgender rights, hetero-cisnormativity, and quantitative queer comparative politics more broadly. More specifically, I am interested in how de jure policies unrelated to gender, sex, and sexuality enforce our understanding of each concept. Currently, I am working on projects related to conversion therapy bans in the US, global gender marker policies, and hetero-cisnormativity in US court cases. My proposed research agenda also includes research on transgender sex work, initially at the US level with hopes to expand to the global level.聽