Welcome to my website. I am a Research Fellow at Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. I was previously a Pre-Doctoral Fellow at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation and a Peace Scholar in the United States Institute of Peace's Jennings Randolph Peace Scholarship Dissertation Program. I received my Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 2009. My research interests include insurgency and counterinsurgency, military strategy and effectiveness, violence against civilians, and conflict resolution. For more information, please follow the links on the navigation bar.