I am an incoming assistant professor at Franklin and Marshall College, where I will teach international relations and Middle East politics starting Fall 2025. My research concerns how power asymmetries shape cooperation and conflict between regional powers and great powers, with a focus on the Middle East.

I am also a foreign policy editor for Lawfare. Previously, I was a post-doctoral fellow at the Naval War College and 2023-24 Hans J. Morgenthau Fellow with the Notre Dame International Security Center. I received a Ph.D. in political science from Yale University in May 2024.

Before entering graduate school, I was an editor and policy analyst in Washington, D.C. My previous published work includes policy reports and articles on U.S. counterterrorism efforts, the Iran nuclear agreement, and Islamophobic rhetoric in U.S. political discourse, among other subjects. My writing has appeared in Foreign Policy magazine, The Atlantic, Defense One, the Los Angeles Times, and The Hill, and been cited in major news outlets and academic journals.