Welcome! I'm a Security and Foreign Policy Postdoctoral Fellow at William & Mary’s Global Research Institute. I received my Ph.D. from the Department of Political Science at Indiana University Bloomington.

I study international relations and political methodology and am broadly interested in economic coercion and political violence. My research largely focuses on the determinants of economic sanctions as well as how international sanctions are associated with armed conflict and conflict dynamics.

My research is forthcoming or has been published in International Studies Quarterly, World Development, The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, Foreign Policy Analysis, International Interactions, and the Journal of Contemporary African Studies. I’m also co-author of Climate Adaptation and Conflict Mitigation: The Case of South Sudan (Cambridge University Press). 

Before entering Indiana's Ph.D. program, I received undergraduate and graduate degrees in political science, served as an AmeriCorps volunteer, and taught in China, Singapore, Japan, and Taiwan.