About

Welcome! I am currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention at Binghamton University. In September 2025 I completed my PhD in Political Science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst where I was a Doctoral Research Fellow at the Human Security Lab. I specialize in international relations with research interests in conflict and political violence, human rights, and human security. My work focuses on the role of gender and sexuality in global- and national-level responses to conflict and insecurity. I have extensive training in and experience using various qualitative methods, and to date have designed and taught three different courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

My dissertation, which was funded by the American Political Science Association and earned distinction, traces and explains the emergence of a norm to ‘unsilence’ male survivors of conflict-related sexual violence and takes stock of the implications of this discursive change, including prevailing essentialisms about male survivors’ experiences and lingering tensions in the advocacy world. I am currently working on several articles based on my doctoral research and conducting further research in preparation for translating the project into a book manuscript.

Please feel free to contact me with any questions about my work or potential collaborations. I am especially happy to speak with students!