Research

Works in Progress

"Corporations, Community, and Cocoa: A Role for Non-State Actors in Rural Stability"

This project considers the local political effects of international companies' privately funded development initiatives throughout the cocoa industry. This research is supported by the Pearson Institute Research and Innovation Fund.

"Partnerships for Rural Development: ESG Investments and Program Implementation in Cocoa"

This project introduces a typology of service provision partnerships with NGOs and producer cooperatives within privately funded development initiatives in cocoa using interview data from Ghana, to advance a new research agenda on ESG and CSR's local political effects.

RA Work

For Professor Albertus, including methodological assistance for "The Political Price of Authoritarian Control: Evidence from Francoist Land Settlements in Spain" (Journal of Politics, 2023) and "Indigeneity and Belonging: Evidence from Peru's Peasant Communities" (working paper).