I am a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa. I work under the guidance of Stephen Brown.

My current academic interests are in African Politics and Research Methodologies. Specifically, my work focuses on state-society relations in post-conflict societies. I study individual strategies of everyday resistance to government policies in Africa, with emphasis on Rwanda. I also study interpretative, ethnographic and narrative research methods, with particular focus on research ethics and doing research in difficult environments.

I also provide reports on current country conditions and the plausibility of the claims of refugees from Rwanda.

I received my PhD from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada. I hold an LLB from the University College of London. I am a Research Fellow at Dal’s Centre for Foreign Policy Studies. I am also a member of the States and Security Program.

The photo you see above is a picture of my then six-year-old son with one of the men who participated in my research. All of the banner photos on my website were taken in Rwanda sometime during the course of my fieldwork in 2006.

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