I am currently an assistant professor at the University of Florida's 🐊Hamilton School, as well as an affiliate of Stanford’s Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC), the America in the World Consortium (AWC), and the UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC). I was previously a Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow at CISAC and a research fellow with the International Security Program at the Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center. During graduate school, I also served as summer associate with the RAND Center for Analysis of U.S. Grand Strategy, and for the 2020-2021 academic year was a Hans J. Morgenthau Fellow at the Notre Dame International Security Center. My research and teaching interests include congressional-executive relations in U.S. foreign policy, constitutional law, deterrence theory, and the U.S.-China relationship. 

My work has been published by, or is forthcoming in, the American Political Science Review, International Studies Quarterly, The Journal of Conflict Resolution, Security Studies, The National Interest, The Diplomat, Lawfare, and other outlets. I have served as the instructor of record for classes on Just War Theory, the Presidency, the U.S. Congress, and the Cold War.  I completed my Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of California San Diego in May 2023, and hold a B.A. in Economics with a minor in Chinese from the University of California, Davis, and a J.D.—with a specialization in International and Comparative Law—from the UCLA School of Law.

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