Welcome! I am an associate professor in the Strategic and Operational Research Department at the U.S. Naval War College and a core faculty member in the Cyber & Innovation Policy Institute. Prior to starting at NWC, I taught in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh. I have held fellowships with the Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth College, the International Security Program at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and the Modern War Institute at the United States Military Academy at West Point. I received my Ph.D. in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia.

My research sits at the intersection of security and intelligence studies, with a focus on why and how leaders exploit secrecy on the world stage. My book, In the Shadow of International Law: Secrecy and Regime Change in the Postwar World, is published with Oxford University Press. It develops a legal theory of secret interventions that explains how the rise of the nonintervention principle in the mid-twentieth century created powerful incentives for leaders to conceal their role in regime change operations. My research has been published or is forthcoming in the American Journal of Political Science​, European Journal of International Relations, International Interactions, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Global Security Studies​, Journal of Peace Research​, Journal of Politics, Journal of Strategies Studies​, and Security Studies.