I am an Assistant Professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Prior to this, I was an Assistant Professor for the West Space Seminar at the US Air War College. I received my doctorate in Government from Cornell University in 2021.
My research focuses on Chinese foreign policy and security, the politics of outer space, and issues of prestige and nationalism in world politics. Previously, I was a security fellow with the Truman National Security Project, a Guggenheim predoctoral fellow at the National Air and Space Museum, a visiting researcher at Peking University’s School of International Studies, and a Nonresident WSD-Handa Fellow at the Pacific Forum.
My research has been published in Research & Politics and Space Policy. I have also written in The Washington Quarterly, the Washington Post, World Politics Review, the Conversation, the Modern War Institute, East Asia Forum, the Diplomat, the Carter Center’s US-China Perception Monitor, and the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College. I have been interviewed by MIT Technology Review, BBC Newsnight, Bloomberg, CBC, The Economist, NPR, The Wire China, The Wall Street Journal, Al-Jazeera, Agence-France-Presse, Euronews, Business Insider, Wired, Australian Defence Magazine, Financial Times, the South China Morning Post, Nikkei Asia, and The Diplomat Magazine.