​I am an Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Studies at The College of New Jersey. I study crisis escalation, coercive diplomacy, and nuclear security, with a regional focus on China and the Korean peninsula. 

Previously, I was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard Kennedy School, a Stanton Nuclear Security Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University, and a Predoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Security and Conflict Studies at George Washington University. I received my PhD in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania.