I'm a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science and recipient of the College of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Completion Fellowship 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 has been published in World Development, The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 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 University's PhD program, I received undergraduate and graduate degrees in political science, served as an AmeriCorps volunteer, and taught in China, Singapore, Japan, and Taiwan.