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Education

Ph.D., Political Science

University of South Carolina — 2022–Present Major Field: International Relations | Subfield: Comparative Politics

M.A., International and Comparative Politics

Wright State University — 2016–2018 Thesis: Nationalism and Regional Relations in Democratic Transitions

B.A., Politics, Philosophy, and Economics

Asian University for Women, Chittagong, Bangladesh — 2008–2014 Thesis: Insights and Lessons from the Arab Spring


Selected Employment

Position Institution Dates
Research Assistant (Dr. Jerry Silverman) University of South Carolina Jan 2025–Present
Graduate Assistant University of South Carolina 2022–Present
Associate Lecturer Royal University of Bhutan 2018–2022
Assistant Lecturer Royal University of Bhutan 2015–2018
Graduate Assistant Wright State University 2016–2018

Skills

Languages: Dzongkha (native), English, Hindi, Nepali, Bengali

Computing: R, SAS, LaTeX, Overleaf, Quarto, R Markdown, GitHub

Methods: Principal Component Analysis, Factor Analysis, Cluster Analysis, Multivariate Regression, Random Forests, Support Vector Machines, Multiple Imputation, Multidimensional Scaling, Canonical Correlation