I am a Perry World House Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, where I work with Professor Beth Simmons on the Borders and Boundaries Project, exploring how emerging technologies are transforming borders into increasingly “smart” systems worldwide. 

My dissertation-based book project, Forging Stability: How Global Security Partnerships Empower the Military and Reshape Politics, examines how defense cooperation agreements allow access to resources, technology, and prestige that help governments reduce coup risk and strengthen regime stability in developing countries. 

My broader research sits at the intersection of international security, emerging technologies, and the politics of the Global South, with a focus on interstate conflict, alliances and defense cooperation agreements, border and territorial politics, civil-military relations, and South Asia.

Previously, I was a Postdoctoral Associate at Cornell University, working on a National Science Foundation-funded project, where I developed a global political violence dataset utilizing supervised machine learning and AI-assisted large language models.

My work appears in Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Peace Research, Security Studies, Foreign Policy Analysis, and International Interactions. My research is supported by the Clements Center for National Security, the British, Irish, and Empire Studies at UT, the American Institute of Bangladesh Studies, SSHRC, and the Institute of Humane Studies. 

I hold a Ph.D. in Government from the University of Texas at Austin and an M.A. in Political Science from McGill University.