Educational Background

  • 2020 Ph.D, with distinction, University of North Texas

    o   Committee members: Jacqueline DeMeritt (Chair), T. David Mason, J. Michael Greig, and James Meernik

  • 2013, JD, Syracuse University

  • 2013, MA, Political Science, Syracuse University

  • 2009, BA, History, Baylor University

Professional Experience

  • Researcher, Global Terrorism Database, Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START), University of Maryland, January 2018-Present

  • Adjunct Professor, Utica College, August 2020-Present

  • Pre-Law Advisor, University of North Texas, May 2017—June 2018

  • Mentor, Conflict Research Experience for Undergrads (REU), University of North Texas, May 2016-July 2018

  • Content Editor, American Government Workbook, University of North Texas, May 2017-July 2017

  • Lead Articles Editor, Journal of International Law and Commerce, Syracuse University, May 2012-May 2013

  • Website Content Editor, Impunity Watch Law Journal, Syracuse University, May 2012- May 2013

  • Associate Editor, Journal of International Law and Commerce, Syracuse University, August 2011-May 2012

  • Associate Editor, Impunity Watch Law Journal, Syracuse University, August 2011- May 2012

Teaching and Research

  • Research Assistant, Dr. Tony Carey, University of North Texas, August 2016-July 2017

  • Teaching Assistant, American Government, Various, University of North Texas, August 2015-July 2018

  • Assistant Professor, Government, Collin College, August 2013-May 2015

  • Research Assistant, David Crane, Syracuse University, April 2012-May 2013

  • Graduate Assistant, American Government, Matthew Guardino, Syracuse University, Jan 2012-May 2012

Publishing

Peer Reviewed

  • Uncomfortably Numb: The Disconnect Between Individual Human Rights Perceptions and State Human Rights Practice (Forthcoming at the Journal of Human Rights Practice)

    Non-Peer Reviewed

  • “What will Trumps acquittal mean for U.S. democracy? Here are 4 takeaways.” (2020, Feb. 04) The Monkey Cage. The Washington Post. Available at: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/02/04/what-will-trumps-acquittal-mean-us-democracy-here-are-4-big-takeaways/

  • Various, Impunity Watch Law Journal, available at www.impunitywatch.com, June 2011-May 2013

  • Collateral Damage in America’s Culture War, International Law Society Newsletter, May 2011

Working Papers

  • Institutionalizing Atrocity: How Laws Signal Post-Conflict Government Intentions

  • Good Times, Bad Times: Post-Conflict Rebuilding, Quality of Life, and Typologies of Violence

  • Electioneering: Leaders and Post-Conflict Popularity

  • Everywhere in Chains: Exploitable People and Civil War

  • The Impacts of Bullying on Radicalization towards Terrorism

  • The Mitigating Effects of Corruption on Civil War

Conferences and Presentations

  • Everywhere in Chains: Exploitable People and Civil War, MPSA 2017

  • Uncomfortably Numb: Free Media, Human Rights and Consolidated Complacency (Junior Scholar Symposium), MPSA 2017

  • Corruption and Civil War, ISA Midwest 2017

  • The Expanding Circle: Conflict, Norms and Human Rights, MPSA 2018

  • More Than a Feeling: An Intuitional Theory of Human Rights, MPSA 2018

  • Electioneering: Leaders and Post-Conflict Popularity, ISA Midwest 2018

  • Institutionalizing Atrocity: How Laws Signal Post-Conflict Government Intentions, ISA 2019

Grants, Honors, and Awards

  • UNT PSCI Steven Poe Scholarship $500 2016-2018

  • UNT University Scholarship $1000 2016-2017

  • UNT Academic Achievement Scholarship $1000 2015-Present

  • Law Alumni Scholarship $15,000 2010-2013

  • Young People For Fellow 2009

  • Clinton Global Initiative Fellow 2007

Academic Associations

  • Peace Science Society (International)

  • International Studies Association

  • American Political Science Association

  • Midwest Political Science Association

References Available Upon Request