Welcome! I am a PhD Candidate in Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), specializing in the security studies and international relations subfields. I am also a Hans J. Morgenthau pre-doctorate fellow at the Notre Dame International Security Center for the 2023-2024 academic year. I am broadly interested in the role of nuclear weapons, technological competition, and coercion in international politics. My dissertation project explores how states reveal information about novel military technologies in the context of peacetime security competition, identifying distinctive strategies of technology revelation and proposing a theory that explains the choice of one revelation strategy over another. My dissertation research has received funding awards from the Smith Richardson Foundation, the Schmidt Futures Foundation, and MIT’s Center for International Studies.

I am passionate about learning from and contributing to policy analysis through my research. Since 2022, I have worked as an adjunct policy analyst with the RAND Corporation’s Project Air Force, evaluating various aspects of great power competition. Prior to my work at RAND, I worked as an adjunct graduate student researcher at Sandia National Labs. Before beginning my doctoral work at MIT, I worked at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C., where I supported research on nuclear security and arms control issues. I hold an MPhil in International Relations with Distinction from the University of Oxford and a BA in Political Science with Honors from Colorado College.