PhD Candidate
North America
I graduated in August 2022. I am currently an America in the World Consortium Postdoctoral Fellow at the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.
Visit my personal website for additional information and blog.
Research Interests
- U.S. Foreign Policy
- American Political Development
- The American Presidency
- Covert Operations and Intelligence
- Law
- War
- Strategy
- International Relations
Publications
"Sex, Drugs, and Mind Control," International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence 35, No. 1 (Spring 2022): 173-178.
Review of Cowboy Presidents: The Frontier Myth and U.S. Politics since 1900, by David A. Smith, South Dakota History 51, No. 4 (Winter 2021): 388-389.
Review of Why America Loses Wars: Limited War and US Strategy from the Korean War to the Present, by Donald Stoker, H-War, H-Net Reviews, August 2020.
Review of The Mayaguez Crisis, Mission Command, and Civil-Military Relations, by Christopher J. Lamb, Journal of Military History 84, No. 2 (April 2020): 652-653.
Awards & Fellowships
Predoctoral Fellow, William P. Clements Jr. Center for National Security, UT-Austin
Predoctoral Fellow, America in the World Consortium
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
Townsend Center Working Group Award, Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities, University of California, Berkeley
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
Presentations
“Lawyers, Guns, and Money: The Contra War and American Political Order,” The Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations Annual Meeting, 2020 (cancelled due to COVID-19)
“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," The Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association Annual Meeting, 2018
"'The Most Important Place in the World': Central America during the Reagan Era," The Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations Annual Meeting, 2018
"The Risky Business of Rollback: Anti-Communist Americans, the Contra War, and the Reagan Doctrine," The Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations Annual Meeting, 2017
"The Risky Business of Rollback: Anti-Communist Americans, the Contra War, and the Reagan Doctrine," Western Social Science Association Annual Meeting, 2017
"The Ills of Democracy: The Ronald Reagan Administration and Chile's Transition to Democracy," The New England Council of Latin American Studies Annual Meeting, 2015
