Hello!

I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at Stanford University. I study immigrant political incorporation in the U.S. and Europe.

At Stanford, my research has been generously supported by Stanford Impact Labs, the Laboratory for the Study of American Values, and The Europe Center. I am affiliated with the Immigration Policy Lab, the Inclusive Democracy and Development Lab, and the Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity.

I am passionate about community-based research and service. In 2025 I was awarded the Kennedy-Diamond Award for Excellence in Community Engaged Learning and Research, which recognizes a graduate student who has demonstrated exemplary and mutually-beneficial engagement with the community. I was also a member of the Research, Action, and Impact through Strategic Engagement Doctoral Fellowship (RAISE) inaugural cohort.

Prior to my doctoral studies, I was a Legal Assistant at an immigration and nationality law firm in Philadelphia, PA and an Emerging Scholar in Political Science Predoctoral Fellow with The Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance at Princeton University. I hold an M.A. in Political Science from Stanford University and a B.A. in Political Science from Temple University.

You can contact me via email at pahill[at]stanford[dot]edu.

I welcome opportunities to discuss applying to Stanford's Ph.D. program in Political Science with prospective students. Please feel free to reach out via email with "Prospective Student" as the subject line.