I am currently a Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow at Stanford’s Center for International Security and Cooperation, and am excited to start as an assistant professor at the University of Florida's 🐊Hamilton School in Fall 2025. For the 2023-24 academic year, I was a research fellow with the International Security Program at the Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. I have previously been an Institute for Global Affairs Fellow, a Summer Associate with the RAND Center for Analysis of U.S. Grand Strategy, and for the 2020-2021 academic year I 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. I have been a graduate student researcher for the Center for Peace and Security Studies (cPASS) and the 21st Century China Center, and am currently a Non-resident Fellow at the UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC).

My work has been published by, or is forthcoming in, the American Political Science Review, International Studies Quarterly, The National Interest, The Diplomat, Lawfare, and other outlets. I have served as the instructor of record for classes on 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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