Welcome! I'm the 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, with broad interests in economic statecraft and political violence. My current research largely examines how economic sanctions, as a form of external coercion, reshape the distribution of state capacity and the patterns of armed conflict and conflict dynamics within target countries.

My work advances the sanctions literature by moving beyond cross-national analyses to show how sanctions transform political authority and conflict within states, reshaping the spatial organization of governance and coercion. In doing so, my research moves the field of international relations forward by revealing how international economic pressures restructure the internal distribution of power, linking global coercive practices to the domestic foundations of political order and instability.

My research has been published in well-regarded journals, such as International Studies Quarterly, World Development, and The British Journal of Politics and International Relations. 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. I currently reside in Williamsburg, VA.