Greetings and welcome. I am a Ph.D. candidate in the joint Ph.D. program in Sociology and Demography at the University of California, Berkeley, under the auspices of the Demography and Sociology Departments.

Research Interests

My current intellectual project seeks to understand the relationship between fertility, violence, and political instability. My dissertation explores the impact of genocide on fertility rates in Bosnia and Rwanda. From July 2007 to March 2008 I conducted 143 face-to-face interviews with women and key informants in Bosnia and Rwanda. At present time (summer of 2009) I am completing my writeup of the dissertation.

I have experience and training in interviewing, survey management, and in quantitative and qualitative data analysis. Prior research projects have examined age structure and civil wars in Sub-Saharan Africa and worldwide from 1960 - 2000, fertility decisionmaking in sub-Saharan Africa, and estimates of excess mortality in East Timor during the Indonesian Occupation. More broadly, my research interests include sub-Saharan Africa, family planning, fertility, reproductive health, global development, war and genocide, sexual violence, economic demography, and comparative/historical methods.

Curriculum Vitae

My Curriculum Vitae in pdf format.

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