Welcome! I am an associate professor in the Strategic and Operational Research Department at the U.S. Naval War College and a core faculty member in the Cyber & Innovation Policy Institute.

My research sits at the intersection of security and intelligence studies, with a focus on why and how leaders exploit secrecy on the world stage. My book, In the Shadow of International Law: Secrecy and Regime Change in the Postwar World, is published with Oxford University Press. It develops a legal theory of secret interventions that explains how the rise of the nonintervention principle in the mid-twentieth century created powerful incentives for leaders to conceal their role in regime change operations. My research has been published or is forthcoming in the American Journal of Political Science​, European Journal of International Relations, International Interactions, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Global Security Studies​, Journal of Peace Research​, Journal of Politics, Journal of Strategies Studies​, and Security Studies.