Her research focuses on the political economy of development, local politics of natural resource extraction, territorial sovereignty, and violent conflict.
Her next book-length project explores the use of common-pool resources (forestry in particular) in conflict and post-conflict contexts to explore the effect of common-pool resource management participation on local stability. Other areas of interest include technologies of repression, conflict events reporting, and private investment in unstable regions. She employs a mixed-methods approach, including game theory, comparative case analysis, and statistical methods, and she has conducted fieldwork in Congo-Brazzaville, Zambia, DRC, Senegal, and Mozambique.
- politics of natural resources
- non-state goods provision
- regions of limited state presence
- violent conflict
- technologies of repression
