Welcome! I am a Ph.D. student in Comparative Politics at Cornell University’s Department of Government. My research interests include social movements, electoral behavior, populism, and public opinion in Latin America and beyond. I use quantitative methods to understand the causes and consequences of individuals channeling their unrest through different modes of political participation. I am particularly interested in the relationship between institutional and extra-institutional political behavior.

Before starting my doctoral studies, I was a research assistant at the Laboratory for the Study of the Far-Right (Ultra-Lab), Universidad Diego Portales, the Chilean Longitudinal Social Survey (ELSOC), Center for Social Conflict and Cohesion Studies (COES), and the Social Psychology Laboratory (LAB), Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. I also taught research methods at Universidad Alberto Hurtado’s Department of Politics, and I was a teaching assistant in multiple statistics and quantitative courses at Universidad de Chile’s Department of Sociology.

I hold a M.Sc. in Political Science and Political Economy from The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and a B.A. in Sociology from Universidad de Chile, both with the highest distinction.

Feel free to contact me at ras647@cornell.edu