Welcome to my webpage! I am an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Arizona State University in the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences. At ASU, I am the Interim Director the new Global Human Rights Hub, a Senior Sustainability Scientist at the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability and affiliated with the Center on the Future of War.
I completed my PhD in Government at Cornell University in 2017. Previously, I held a predoctoral fellowship at UCLA School of Law's Williams Institute, a postdoctoral researcher position at ASU, and was a visiting scholar at the Browne Center for International Politics at the University of Pennsylvania. For 2022-2023 I was a Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard Kennedy School working on my next book project.
My research centers on international law, international organizations, and human rights with more specific focus on UN treaty law, peacekeeping, women's , children's and LGBTQ rights . My book Committed to Rights was published by Cambridge University Press. My research has appeared or is forthcoming in International Studies Quarterly, the Journal of Human Rights, Journal of Legislative Studies, Human Rights Review, Politics & Gender, the International Journal of Human Rights, Law & Social Inquiry, Global Governance, the Research Handbook on Law and Courts, and the Washington Post's Monkey Cage on UN peacekeeping sex abuse, international law, and LGBTQ+ rights. I am a Co-PI on a National Science Foundation award supporting initiatives related to the ASU Global Human Rights Hub.
I completed my PhD in Government at Cornell University in 2017. Previously, I held a predoctoral fellowship at UCLA School of Law's Williams Institute, a postdoctoral researcher position at ASU, and was a visiting scholar at the Browne Center for International Politics at the University of Pennsylvania. For 2022-2023 I was a Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard Kennedy School working on my next book project.
My research centers on international law, international organizations, and human rights with more specific focus on UN treaty law, peacekeeping, women's , children's and LGBTQ rights . My book Committed to Rights was published by Cambridge University Press. My research has appeared or is forthcoming in International Studies Quarterly, the Journal of Human Rights, Journal of Legislative Studies, Human Rights Review, Politics & Gender, the International Journal of Human Rights, Law & Social Inquiry, Global Governance, the Research Handbook on Law and Courts, and the Washington Post's Monkey Cage on UN peacekeeping sex abuse, international law, and LGBTQ+ rights. I am a Co-PI on a National Science Foundation award supporting initiatives related to the ASU Global Human Rights Hub.
