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I am a PhD candidate in Political Science at the University of Chicago. I research proxy warfare, military intervention, security cooperation, NATO, and the domestic politics of international relations. My dissertation focuses on when and to what extent states choose to intervene in conflict to support local proxies and use military advisors to manage the resulting political and military challenges of working with proxy forces. It examines U.S. and Russian cases of intervention in conflict through a blend of game theory, original archival and quantitative data, and interviews. My work has been supported by The Pearson Institute for the Study and Resolution of Global Conflicts and The Social Sciences Research Center at the University of Chicago.
I am also a Data Research Fellow at the Chicago Project on Security and Threats (CPOST), where I lead the Data Analytics team in producing data-driven research and publications for both academic and policy audiences. My research at CPOST focuses on the causes and consequences of suicide terrorism, and the link between suicide terrorism and conflict. I earned an MA in Political Science from the University of Chicago, and a BS in Foreign Service from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, with a concentration in international security and a minor in Russia and East European Studies. I speak Polish and some Russian. |