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 and am broadly interested in economic statecraft and political violence. My current research examines the second-order effects of economic sanctions, with a particular focus on how they influence armed conflict and conflict dynamics within target countries.

My research has been published in well-regarded journals, such 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.