PhD Candidate
North America
I am an historian who specializes in U.S. foreign relations. I have a general interest in the formulation of foreign policy and the exercise of American power in the world. My research and writing also examine presidential power and the relationship between domestic politics and foreign affairs. I am chiefly concerned with diplomacy, law, statecraft, and strategy.
My current project is on the Iran-Contra Affair.
I am the founder and lead-organizer of the Berkeley Working Group on Strategy and Statecraft. For more information, please contact statecraft@berkeley.edu
On research leave for the 2019-2020 academic year.
Research Interests
- American Foreign Policy
- Politics
- War
- Strategy
- International Relations
Awards & Fellowships
Congressional Research Grant, The Everett M. Dirksen Congressional Center
Selected Participant, Summer Seminar in Statecraft and History, William P. Clements Jr. Center for National Security, UT-Austin
Pre-Dissertation Research Grant, Institute of International Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Peter and Edith O'Donnell Grant, Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs, Bush School of Government and Public Service
Tisch Library Research Fellowship in the Humanities and the Arts
Department of History Research Award, Tufts University
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Research Award, Tufts University
Publications & Presentations
“A Reagan Revolution: The Iran-Contra Affair and American Statecraft, 1981-1993,” LSE International History Research Seminar (HY509), London School of Economics, 2018.
"Piercing the Teflon-Presidency: The Iran-Contra Affair and Presidential Power," PCB-AHA Annual Meeting, 2018
"The Most Important Place in the World": Central America during the Reagan Era, SHAFR Annual Meeting, 2018
"The Risky Business of Rollback: Anti-Communist Americans, the Contra War, and the Reagan Doctrine," SHAFR Annual Meeting, 2017
"The Risky Business of Rollback: Anti-Communist Americans, the Contra War, and the Reagan Doctrine," WSSA Annual Meeting, 2017
"The Ills of Democracy: The Ronald Reagan Administration and Chile's Transition to Democracy," NECLAS Annual Meeting, 2015
