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

My research interests are in crisis escalation, coercive diplomacy, and nuclear security, with a regional focus on China and the Korean peninsula. 

Previously, I was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with MTA and the International Security Program at Harvard's Belfer Center, 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.