​I am an Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Studies at The College of New Jersey. I study international security, nuclear security, and security in the Asia-Pacific, 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 University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, and a Stanton Nuclear Security Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. I received my PhD in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania.