Self-censorship in Floridian academia
I am analyzing how pervasive uncertainty and informal intimidation have led scholars to self-censor in their teaching and research in ways that are not prescribed by law. The …
Current Projects
Here is a selection of projects I am currently working on. They all connect to the theme of human rights, state coercion and the principles that are integral to a free society – including their contestations, inner tensions, and comparative measurement. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions or ideas for collaborations!
Civil liberties in the criminal process
The project investigates why democracies differ so profoundly in the civil liberty protections embedded in their criminal process and why these protection regimes change over time. …
Transnorms
The TRANSNORMS project explores how international norms are translated between the global and local level. Using topic modeling methods, we analyze how international human rights …
Stasi remand prisoners
Using a new dataset of Stasi remand prisoners from the 1960s until 1989, this project aims to gain a systematic understanding of the practice of authoritarian justice in the GDR …
Using LLMs to update human rights datasets
New artificial intelligence tools are being released at a staggering pace, making traditional ways of data collection look outdated and potentially obsolete. However, the real …
Tensions in the liberal science script
Focusing on the role and social architecture of science in liberal societies, this research project expores some of its inherent tensions and how they have been negotiated over …