I am a doctoral student in the Department of Political Science at the University of Michigan. I study comparative and international political economy, international law, and quantitative research methods for political science.

I also maintain two packages for the statistical software environment R. countrycode is a library used to convert text strings from one country coding scheme to another (e.g. from long English names to Correlates of War, or from IMF to ISO). WDI is an R interface to the World Bank’s World Development Indicators download API. Click on the menu to your right for more info.