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I am an assistant professor (lecturer) in the political science department at the University of Iceland. Prior to that, I was a senior lecturer at the Hertie School in Berlin, Germany. Before the Hertie School, I was a post-doctoral researcher at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and LMU Munich. At the TUM, I was a part of the CoronaNet Research Project, a global and large-scale data gathering effort for government policies related to the Covid-19 pandemic. At the LMU, I was part of a research team working on the resourcing of international organizations, especially pertaining to global refugee policy and international migration. I received my PhD from the University of Rochester in 2017. My research is at the boundary between political science and public administration, with a substantive focus on the bureaucratic politics of international institutions, particularly within the United Nations aid agencies. My work has appeared in Political Studies, the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, and the International Review of Administrative Sciences. I am also interested in quantitative methodologies and causal inference and have taught courses on statistics, bureaucratic politics, and international organizations.
In part, my interest in the UN and its bureaucracy developed prior to graduate school, while working at the International Peace Institute in New York on UN responses to transnational threats and challenges. My current research combines quantitative methods and my experience with UN policy-making processes to explore mechanisms through which both donor and recipient states informally influence the UN system.
I am an assistant professor (lecturer) in the political science department at the University of Iceland. Prior to that, I was a senior lecturer at the Hertie School in Berlin, Germany. Before the Hertie School, I was a post-doctoral researcher at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and LMU Munich. At the TUM, I was a part of the CoronaNet Research Project, a global and large-scale data gathering effort for government policies related to the Covid-19 pandemic. At the LMU, I was part of a research team working on the resourcing of international organizations, especially pertaining to global refugee policy and international migration. I received my PhD from the University of Rochester in 2017. My research is at the boundary between political science and public administration, with a substantive focus on the bureaucratic politics of international institutions, particularly within the United Nations aid agencies. My work has appeared in Political Studies, the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, and the International Review of Administrative Sciences. I am also interested in quantitative methodologies and causal inference and have taught courses on statistics, bureaucratic politics, and international organizations.
In part, my interest in the UN and its bureaucracy developed prior to graduate school, while working at the International Peace Institute in New York on UN responses to transnational threats and challenges. My current research combines quantitative methods and my experience with UN policy-making processes to explore mechanisms through which both donor and recipient states informally influence the UN system.
