I am a Ph.D. candidate in political science at the University of Pennsylvania scheduled to defend my dissertation in July 2023. For the 2022-23 academic year, I am completing a predoctoral fellowship with the Clements Center for National Security at the University of Texas at Austin, as well as a non-residential Hans J. Morgenthau Fellowship with the Notre Dame International Security Center.
My research focuses on international security issues including alliance politics, emerging military technology and strategy, and the interaction of domestic and international security institutions. I want to better understand how groups build and manage organizations charged with using the tools of warfare, particularly as technology changes, and what can make those organizations more accountable and effective.
In my dissertation, I use archival research and a new data set to examine how integrated command and control institutions can solve and create problems for strategic decision-making in military coalitions. Coauthors and I have published on AI in military applications in Orbis and have a chapter forthcoming in the Oxford Handbook of AI Governance. My research has received $27,000 in grant funding.
At the University of Pennsylvania, I have taught Introduction to International Relations as an instructor of record and, in 2021, received recognition for my teaching as a finalist for Penn's Prize for Excellence in Graduate Student teaching.
In 2021-22, I completed a U.S. Institute of Peace–U.S. Department of Defense Minerva Peace and Security Scholar dissertation fellowship. I was also a 2021 Shawn Brimley Next Generation National Security Fellow with the Center for a New American Security in Washington, D.C. and, since 2022, have been an adjunct researcher with the RAND Corporation.
Prior to coming to Penn, I worked in the policy world, serving as a Nunn-Lugar Fellow at the U.S. Department of Defense. While at the Pentagon, I contributed to the Department’s counter-ISIL team as the country director for Jordan in the Office of the Secretary of Defense (Policy) from 2015 to 2017, and I supported WMD nonproliferation efforts in the Asia-Pacific region by advising on Cooperative Threat Reduction program oversight matters from 2013 to 2015. I have also conducted research at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, and the Center for Nonproliferation Studies. My policy commentary has appeared in War on the Rocks, the Washington Post “Monkey Cage” blog, and The National Interest.
I hold an M.A. with distinction in nonproliferation and terrorism studies from the Monterey Institute of International Studies and a B.A. summa cum laude in Russian from Middlebury College. I currently serve on the Board of Directors for the Middlebury Alumni Association.
My research focuses on international security issues including alliance politics, emerging military technology and strategy, and the interaction of domestic and international security institutions. I want to better understand how groups build and manage organizations charged with using the tools of warfare, particularly as technology changes, and what can make those organizations more accountable and effective.
In my dissertation, I use archival research and a new data set to examine how integrated command and control institutions can solve and create problems for strategic decision-making in military coalitions. Coauthors and I have published on AI in military applications in Orbis and have a chapter forthcoming in the Oxford Handbook of AI Governance. My research has received $27,000 in grant funding.
At the University of Pennsylvania, I have taught Introduction to International Relations as an instructor of record and, in 2021, received recognition for my teaching as a finalist for Penn's Prize for Excellence in Graduate Student teaching.
In 2021-22, I completed a U.S. Institute of Peace–U.S. Department of Defense Minerva Peace and Security Scholar dissertation fellowship. I was also a 2021 Shawn Brimley Next Generation National Security Fellow with the Center for a New American Security in Washington, D.C. and, since 2022, have been an adjunct researcher with the RAND Corporation.
Prior to coming to Penn, I worked in the policy world, serving as a Nunn-Lugar Fellow at the U.S. Department of Defense. While at the Pentagon, I contributed to the Department’s counter-ISIL team as the country director for Jordan in the Office of the Secretary of Defense (Policy) from 2015 to 2017, and I supported WMD nonproliferation efforts in the Asia-Pacific region by advising on Cooperative Threat Reduction program oversight matters from 2013 to 2015. I have also conducted research at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, and the Center for Nonproliferation Studies. My policy commentary has appeared in War on the Rocks, the Washington Post “Monkey Cage” blog, and The National Interest.
I hold an M.A. with distinction in nonproliferation and terrorism studies from the Monterey Institute of International Studies and a B.A. summa cum laude in Russian from Middlebury College. I currently serve on the Board of Directors for the Middlebury Alumni Association.
Born and raised in Arizona, I have lived and worked in Middlebury, Vermont; Irkutsk, Russia; Monterey, California; Vienna, Austria; Richland, Washington; Washington, D.C.; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Austin, Texas.
I am a cook, a yogi, a hiker, and a proud member of the LGBTQ+ community.
I am a cook, a yogi, a hiker, and a proud member of the LGBTQ+ community.
