Professional Highlights
Assistant Professor of National Security Affairs, U.S. Naval War College
Joined the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island as a tenure-track professor.
Senior Advisor for Economic and National Security, U.S. Department of Commerce
Served as the lead national security advisor to U.S. Deputy Secretary of Commerce Don Graves during the largest expansion of Department national security work in memory. Initially appointed and placed as a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow.
Postdoc Fellow and Visiting Scholar, Tufts Fletcher School
Undertook postdoctoral research and analysis at the Center for Strategic Studies at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.
Interview Host, Office Hours and Snack Break
Founded and hosted two video and podcast series during Ph.D., interviewing a variety of academics and practitioners. Office Hours was housed and co-developed at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Marshall Scholar
Spent two years doing graduate work in the United Kingdom on an academic scholarship funded by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (now Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office).
Junior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Assisted senior fellows at the foreign policy think tank.
Education
Ph.D., Harvard University, 2020, Public Policy
M.A., King's College London, 2012, International Peace and Security, with Distinction
M.Sc., London School of Economics, 2011, International Relations, with Merit
B.A., Williams College, 2009, Mathematics and Political Science, phi beta kappa and magna cum laude
Research Contributions and Publications
William McKinley Jr.
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History, 2024
The Meddler’s Trap: McKinley, the Philippines, and the Difficulty of Letting Go
International Security, 2023
The Psychology of Stickiness: What America Can Learn From its Annexation of the Philippines in 1898
War on the Rocks, 2022
The Blind Spots of Diplomatic History
War on the Rocks, 2022
Unity Through Education: How America Can Heal its Wounds by Learning From its Past
Journal of Applied History, 2021
Review of Charlie Laderman, Sharing the Burden: The Armenian Question, Humanitarian Intervention and Anglo-American Visions of Global Order
H-Diplo, 2021
The Curious Phenomenon of Academic Telephone: Alternative Facts in History
Center for Strategic Studies at the Tufts Fletcher School, 2021
What One Word Teaches Us About the Uncertainty of American Empire
War on the Rocks, 2021
Bound to Happen: Explanation Bias in Historical Analysis
Co-authored with Richard Zeckhauser
Journal of Applied History, 2020
The Central American Conundrum: Toward a New Regional Security and Economic Order
War on the Rocks, 2020
Back Channel Negotiations and Dangerous Waiting
Co-authored with Richard Zeckhauser
Negotiation Journal, 2018
Diplomas and Diplomacy: The History of the Marshall Scholarship
Palgrave Macmillan, 2016 (preface by then-sitting British Secretary of State, Sir Philip Hammond MP)
Egypt’s Regime Will Change: Here’s How to Cushion the Blow
The New Republic, 2010
In Colombia, Democracy is Stirred but not Shaken
Co-Authored with Robert Kagan
Washington Post, 2010
Awards and Decorations
International Affairs Fellow
Council on Foreign Relations, 2022-2023
Non-Resident Fellow
Eurasia Group Foundation (now Institute for Global Affairs), 2022
Rogerson Cup Award for Alumni Service
Williams College, 2021
"New Face" in International Security
Triangle Institute for Security Studies, 2020
International Policy Scholars Consortium and Network (IPSCON) Junior Scholar
2019-2020
Security Fellow
Truman National Security Project, 2019
Ernest May Fellow in History and Policy
Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, 2018-2020
World Politics and Statecraft Fellow
Smith Richardson Foundation, 2018
History and Public Policy Fellow
Harvard Kennedy School’s Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, 2017-2018
Grant Recipient
Harvard University’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, 2017-2018
Graduate Fellow
The Tobin Project, 2017
Grant Recipient
Harvard University’s Center for American Political Studies, 2017
Grant Recipient
Economic History Association, 2017
Grant Recipient
John Anson Kittredge Fund, 2017
Bok Center Certificate of Distinction in Teaching
Fall 2016
Marshall Scholarship
2010-2012
Junior Fellow
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2009-2010