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I am a 2024-2025 Brady-Johnson Predoctoral Fellow in Grand Strategy at the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs and a Political Science Ph.D. Candidate (ABD, Expected June 2025) at The Ohio State University, with specializations in International Relations and Political Methodology. I am interested in the bottom-up and top-down determinants of coercion---specifically, how domestic politics, leaders, and time horizons affect foreign policy, and how structural conditions such as hierarchy and uncertainty affect the likelihood of war. I approach these questions using various methodologies, including survey experiments, statistical estimation, computational social science, as well as historical process tracing and archival research. Starting Fall 2025, I will be a Rosenwald Postdoctoral Fellow in The John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth College. My dissertation investigates the sources and consequences of time horizons in foreign policy decision-making. I theorize the conditions under which leaders possess short- versus long- time horizons to explore how and why they uphold or abandon costly foreign policies. Ultimately, my project addresses how and why foreign policies finally end. I examine these time preferences using survey experiments, large-N statistical analysis, and archival research of presidential decision-making. Please click here to learn more about my book project. My co-authored research has been published in The American Journal of Political Science. Previously, I was a 2023-2024 Hans J. Morgenthau Fellow at the Notre Dame International Security Center and a Graduate Student Fellow at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies. I am also a member of the Modeling Emergent Social Order (MESO) Lab at Ohio State. I received my M.A. in Political Science from Indiana University Bloomington in 2018, and a B.A. in political science and biology (with high honors) from Hofstra University in 2016. You can find my CV here. Please don't hesitate to reach out to me via email at [email protected]. You can also find me on Bluesky. |
