She recently returned to Cornell from two years as a Harvard Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. Her research interests include political communications, education and democratization, consequences of political participation, political behavior, comparative constitution-making, law and development, cross-national survey research, and the international refugee regime. Her dissertation, based on research conducted in Uganda, focused on the effects of citizen participation in Ugandan constitution making in creating “distrusting democrats.” She received her Ph.D. in political science from the University of Michigan and a B.A. in development studies from the University of California, Berkeley.