She holds a PhD in political science from UC Berkeley, and was previously a Research Fellow in the International Security Program at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Her research focuses on the politics of memory, genocide and mass killing, and the diffusion and impact of international norms. She is currently completing a book manuscript, titled Changing the State’s Story: The Politics of Dark Pasts in Turkey and Japan, which investigates the sources of change and continuity in states’ narratives of past atrocities, focusing on Turkey’s narrative of the Armenian Genocide and Japan’s narrative of the Nanjing Massacre.