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I am currently a David and Cindy Edelson Fellow and Rosenwald Postdoctoral Fellow in U.S. Foreign Policy and International Security in the Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth College. I am also a Research Fellow of Bear F. Braumoeller's Modeling Emergent Social Order (MESO) Lab. My research revolves around 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. My book project investigates the sources and consequences of time horizons in foreign policy decision-making. Time horizons, or how actors value the short-term costs and long-term benefits of actions, undeniably affect social and political decision-making. I identify the conditions under which leaders possess short- versus long- time horizons to explore how and why they uphold or abandon costly foreign policies, such as military interventions and economic sanctions. Ultimately, my project explains how and why some foreign policies continue while others change. I investigate these decision-making processes using survey experiments, large-N statistical and computational analysis, and archival research of presidential decision-making (including Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon in Vietnam [1964-73], and Ronald Reagan in Lebanon [1980-84]). 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 2024-2025 Predoctoral Fellow in the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy at Yale University. I was also 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 earned my Ph.D. in Political Science from The Ohio State University in August 2025, with specializations in International Relations and Political Methodology. 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. I am from Long Island, NY. You can find my CV here. You can reach me via email at [email protected] or [email protected]. |
