Maria is a first-year doctoral student in Sociology. Her research interests include media and narrative analysis using computational methods, particularly in the contexts of collective memory, organized crime, and education.

Maria holds an A.B. from Harvard University in Social Studies with a secondary in Mathematics, where her undergraduate thesis examined the role of collective memory narratives in perpetuating political and bureaucratic corruption in Serbia. Prior to coming to Princeton, she worked as a Strategic Analytics Fellow at the Harvard Office for Institutional Research and Analytics.