CV
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Bio
Currently, I am a Postdoctoral Fellow at the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth College. I was formerly an International Security Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University and a Hans J. Morgenthau Fellow at the University of Notre Dame. My research examines the logic and effects of civilian victimization strategies during war, with a focus on civil wars and the use of economic warfare. Other research interests include the origins of rebellion, state-building during civil war,  defection, and interdisciplinary collaboration between history and political science.

In August 2025, I finished my PhD in Political Science at George Washington University. The book project building off my dissertation asks two central questions. First, why do states adopt economic warfare to combat rebels within their own or occupied countries? Second, why does economic warfare weaken some rebels more than others? To test my arguments, I leverage extensive qualitative and quantitative archival research from the American War in Vietnam (1955-1974). Additionally, I illustrate the role of economic warfare by state forces in all major civil wars after 1945 and provide additional qualitative case studies, leveraging further primary source evidence from the French War in Indochina and Soviet War in Afghanistan. My research has been published in Perspectives on Politics, Texas National Security Review, and the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies. The article version of my book project currently has a "revise and resubmit" at International Security.

Beyond my research, I design and publish educational tabletop games to synthesize historical and political science research on conflict into a more accessible format for the general public, students, and policymakers. My games have reached thousands of players across the globe and used in a wide variety of educational institutions ranging from AP World History classes to the U.S. Army War College's course on counterinsurgency and MIT's Wargaming Lab.

Contact me at: [email protected]