Welcome! I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at Texas Tech University, specializing in International Relations and Quantitative Methods, with minor concentration in Comparative Politics. My research focuses on the intersection of gender, conflict and security issues, and foreign policy, using causal inference, public opinion (surveys and experiments), and regression methods. 

My work is forthcoming/published in the Review of International Organization.

In my dissertation, I examine the role of female leaders in states' conflict resolution and security issues, focusing on humanitarian military interventions, military alliances, and foreign policy decisions between economic sanctions and military action. My dissertation has been generously supported by the IHS Humane Studies Fellowship, IHS Survey Expense, the Institute for Peace and Conflict Fellowship, APSA Experimental Research Section Early Career Fellowship, APSA Centennial Center Research Grant, and the Department of Political Science at Texas Tech University. I am also an Early-Career Experimental Fellow of the American Political Science Association (APSA).

My broader research agenda focuses on foreign policy and economic statecraft, gender and politics, conflict and security issues, executive branch politics, human rights/security, and quantitative methods.