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About Me
I am a doctoral candidate of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania and a researcher with the National Defense University's Institute for National Strategic Studies. My research agenda focuses on how information technology (IT) is challenging traditional security studies concepts. My dissertation seeks to explain variation in state responses to perceived foreign information threats, such as computer network attack and influence operations. I separately research how militaries are incorporating IT, and how strategies to use IT are diffusing in the international system. Finally, as an adjunct researcher with the RAND Corporation and consultant with Caerus Associates, I assist the US military, intelligence community, and Department of Defense.
Before enrolling at Penn, I received my MA in International Relations from Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), having concentrated in Strategic Studies and International Economics, and my BA from Johns Hopkins' undergraduate program in International Studies. During that time, I researched IT policy for the Johns Hopkins University Information Security Institute and the Department of Defense. Subsequently, I worked on military analysis and long-term strategy for the intelligence community and Office of the Secretary of Defense. During the 2009-2010 academic year, I was appointed to Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering to work on the strategic implications of large-scale surveillance IT for state-society relations and international politics.