Education

Ph.d, Sociology, Stanford UNiversity, June 2013 (expected)
Dissertation Project - 3 Paper Option:
 1) International Humanitarian Organizations and Inter-Group Conflict
This article focuses on the impact of one specific type of international actor - international humanitarian organizations (IHOs) - on a single aspect of armed conflict, the displacement of people from regions of conflict. This study, therefore, is motivated by two primary questions: 1) What mechanisms link the activities of international humanitarian organizations to forced migration during conflicts, and 2) Do international humanitarian organizations alleviate or exacerbate the forced displacement of people, net of other factors identified in the literature?
2) The Political Economy of Collective Action in Emerging Democratic Regimes: South Africa from 1994-2010
Under the apartheid regime in South Africa before 1994, social movement organizations in South Africa were largely allied in opposition to the Afrikaner-run government. Therefore, collective action in South Africa during the apartheid period most often emerged from cross-racial and cross-ethnic alliances This paper examines how these alliances have shifted in the post-apartheid period by analyzing event-history data on the impact of political and economic reforms on collective action events between 1994 and 2010.
3) From Institutionalized Supremacy to Social Movement Separatism: The Transformation of the Afrikaner Nationalism in Post-Apartheid South Africa
One of the least addressed questions concerning the transition to democracy in South Africa is the impact that majority rule has had on what was once one of the most successful social movements in Africa, if not the world – namely, Afrikaner Nationalism. Using a mixed-methods approach, this paper looks athow losing South Africa’s “liberation struggle” has affected Afrikaner Nationalism particularly in the face of the social, political, and economic restructuring of the country in the post-apartheid period. From a theoretical perspective, this study addresses two longstanding sociological questions about 1) the mobilizing effect of threat and the emergence of reactive social movements, and 2) the evolution of movement framing.

M.Phil, Development Studies, University of Oxford, 2005
Masters Thesis:
Assessing the Impact of Development:
Evaluating NGO Development Projects

B.A, Political Science with Honors, Stanford University, 2001
Honors Thesis:
From Revolutionary Movement to Political Party:
The Evolution of the African National Congress, 1962-1999