Transitional Justice Data Base

Transitional justice mechanisms, particularly truth commissions and trials designed to resolve past authoritarian state violence, have proliferated around the world. The Transitional Justice Data Base (TJDB) is the first project to systematically and statistically test the assumptions in the literature that such mechanisms strengthen democracy and deter human rights violations. In collaboration with Professor Leigh Payne and Andrew Reiter, I have begun to explore the political economy of transitional justice.

University of WI - NewsLab

Most Americans (and an even higher percentage of Latinos in the U.S.) get the majority of their information from television and local news in particular. Yet there have been few systematic studies of the content and effectiveness of local television news. Over the past two years, I have been the Project & Grants Director at the University of Wisconsin's NewsLab. This year, I am supervising over fifty undergraduate students to compile the NewsLab's most comprehensive dataset and archive in Spanish- and English-language news in the Midwest, the Midwest News Index.