Welcome! I am an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. I study technology and conflict in East Asia. My research focuses on how countries leverage nuclear, space, cyber, and missile technology for coercion. I examine this question with respect to China.
I completed my Ph.D. at the Political Science Department at MIT in 2018, where I was also a member of the Security Studies Program. I have held fellowships at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Stanford University, Harvard University and Renmin University of China. I spent over a year doing field work in China in 2015-7, supported by the Smith Richardson Foundation, MIT Center for International Studies, and the China Confucius Institute. Previously, I was an Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at the George Washington University from 2019-21.
Before commencing my Ph.D., I was a Research Associate at the Lowy Institute for International Policy and was admitted to practice as a lawyer in Australia.
Photo (above): a former missile testing base outside of Beijing, now a memorial to the scientists who developed China's nuclear weapons and missile program.
