Welcome to my home page. I am a PhD Student in Political Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder. I started my PhD program here at Boulder in the Fall of 2003.
Please take a look at my research interests (with my research statement) and my teaching pages (with my teaching portfolio).

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In Political Science, I specialized in the sub-fields of Comparative Politics and International Political Economy.
My thesis deals with the political effects of internal and external migration in the EU. Take a look at its third chapter (in paper-like format) , which deals with the effects on different mixes of nationalities/ethnicities on citizens’ satisfaction with their municipality in the UK. I presented that paper at the 2008 Midwest Political Science Association meeting in Chicago.
The fourth chapter of my thesis, in its last stages, deals with the effects of migration on the electoral performances of the ethno-regionalist “Northern League” party in Italy, and will be soon online.
My IPE research deals with the political ramifications of international debt. I presented a paper on that subject at the 2007 MPSA meeting in Chicago. As soon as time will allow me to, I intend to explore the topic more accurately.
If you are looking for my full research resume, publications and writing sample (available for download in PDF format), please take look at my research pages.
If you are looking for my teaching portfolio, syllabi, and assignment examples, please log onto my teaching pages.