Welcome!  I am an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

I study contested authority in global governance: how states exploit, challenge, and undermine multilateral institutions, and the consequences for international cooperation. One line of work asks how the proliferation of overlapping international institutions reshapes bargaining, cooperation, and the distribution of authority among states. A second investigates the politics of noncompliance with international law.

My work has appeared in the American Political Science Review, International Organization, The Journal of Politics, Journal of the American Statistical Association, International Studies Quarterly, and Review of International Organizations, among other outlets.

My other interests include state reputation in foreign policy, the governance of emerging technologies, and applied network analysis. I teach courses on international law and cooperation, international organizations, network analysis, and theory-building in political science.

Prior to UNC I was an Assistant Professor at Yale University. I completed a Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton University (2018), an M.A. in International Policy Studies from Stanford University (2010), and a B.A. in International Affairs from the University of Georgia (2008). I worked in the Departments of Homeland Security and State from 2010-2012.