Welcome!

I am a lecturer at (and recent Ph.D. from) the Department of Political Science at the University of Michigan. My primary research interests are international security, foreign policy, and behavioral models of the mass public's acceptance of war. I am also interested in formal modeling and, recently, experimental approaches to demonstrating the practical implications of formal theory.

Prior to arriving in Ann Arbor, I was an undergraduate student at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, where I studied political science after two years of work on a computer science major. From 2007 to 2009, I was a consultant with Huron Consulting Group's non-labor healthcare practice, where I helped clients with legal compliance and other operational issues related to HRSA's 340B Drug Program. 340B obliges pharmaceutical suppliers to provide at- or below-cost drugs to indigent patients in economically distressed areas.

As a lecturer at Michigan for the 2012-13 academic year, I am teaching undergraduate courses in conflict theory, American foreign policy, and the domestic sources of crisis behavior. In my free time, I spend a lot of time thinking about professional soccer.