Professional Highlights
Assistant Professor
Strategic and Operational Research Department, Center for Naval Warfare Studies, U.S. Naval War College
Assistant Professor
Department of Strategy, Air War College
Principal Investigator
"Re-writing the Constitutional History of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty," Carnegie Corporation of New York research grant
Assistant Professor
Department of History, University of Southampton
Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow
RAND Corporation
MacArthur Nuclear Security Fellow
Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University
Education
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 2013, History
B.A., University of Texas at Austin, 2006, Plan II Liberal Arts Honor; History; Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies
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Research Contributions and Publications
“Neutral and Nonaligned Nations in the Making of the Postcolonial Nuclear Order”
Edited by Pascal Lottaz and Yōko Iwama
In Neutral Europe and the Creation of the Nonproliferation Regime, New York: Routledge, 2023
The Nuclear Club: How America and the World Policed the Atom from Hiroshima to Vietnam
Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2022
The Reagan Moment: America and the World in the 1980s
Co-authored with Simon Miles
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2021
“The Nuclear Revolution in U.S. Foreign Policy during the Cold War”
Edited by Christopher R. W. Dietrich
In A Companion to U.S. Foreign Relations, 1st ed., 805–31. Wiley, 2020
“Mexican Nuclear Diplomacy, the Latin American Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone, & the NPT Grand Bargain, 1962-1968”
Edited by Andreas Wenger, Roland Popp, and Liviu Horovitz
In Negotiating the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty: The Making of a Nuclear Order, New York: Routledge, 2017
“Nuclear Arms Control in U.S. Foreign Policy”
In Oxford Reference Encyclopedia. American History. Oxford University Press, June 2017
“How Weapons of Mass Destruction Became ‘Red Lines’ for America”
The Atlantic, 2017
“Geneva, Reykjavik, Washington, and Moscow, 1985–8”
Co-authored with David Reynolds
Edited by Kristina Spohr and David Reynolds
In Transcending the Cold War, 151–79. Oxford University Press, 2016
“The Birth of an International Community”
Edited by Robert Hutchings and Jeremi Suri
In Foreign Policy Breakthroughs, 72–100. Oxford University Press, 2015
“The Legacy of Reykjavik and the Future of Nuclear Disarmament”
Co-authored with Paul F. Walker
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 67, no. 6 (November 1, 2011): 63–72.
Other Honors
Title VIII Scholar
Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2019
Visiting Research Fellow
Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford, Michaelmas, 2018
Summer Scholar
Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2017
Center on International Conflict and Negotiation Fellow
Stanford Law School, 2014
Dwight D. Eisenhower/Clifford Roberts Writing Fellowship
Eisenhower Institute, 2012-2013
George C. Marshall/Baruch Research Fellowship
George C. Marshall Foundation, 2012
Samuel Flagg Bemis Grant
Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR)
2011 Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship
U.S. Department of Education, 2010-2012
John D. Curtis Endowed Fellowship in History
University of Texas at Austin, 2008-2010
External Memberships and Associations
UK Higher Education Academy
Fellow
American Historical Association
Organization of American Historians
Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
History and Public Policy, Woodrow Wilson International Centers for Scholars
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