​I am an Assistant Professor of Political Science at The College of New Jersey and an Associate with the Project on Managing the Atom at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard Kennedy School.

My research focuses on crisis escalation, coercive diplomacy, and nuclear security, with particular attention to China and the Korean peninsula. 

I have a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania, and I have been a pre-doctoral fellow at the Institute for Security and Conflict Studies at the George Washington University, a Stanton Nuclear Security Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University, and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the International Security Program and Project on Managing the Atom at the Belfer Center, Harvard Kennedy School.