About

Welcome! I am currently a Postdoctoral Associate at the Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention – 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 both qualitative and interpretive methods and over 5 years of teaching experience.

My dissertation 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 with feminist advocacy. At I-GMAP and while on the academic job market, I am working on several articles based on my dissertation and preparing to translate my full dissertation 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!