Hi!

I am an Assistant Professor at the Department of Public Affairs at Roanoke College. My research interests include international policy diffusion and agenda setting, national security policy, and political parties’ policy agendas.

I completed my PhD at the Department of Government at UT Austin, where I have also been a Graduate Research Fellow with the Policy Agendas Project , a Graduate Fellow with the Clements Center, and a Brumley Graduate Fellow at the Robert Strauss Center. I hold a M.A. in International Strategic Studies (2016) and a B.A. in International Relations (2013) from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil where I am from.

When not working, I spend my time cooking, upcycling old furniture, and fixing bicycles.