Assistant Professor of International AffairsFaculty Fellow, Center for International Trade and Security

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I am an assistant professor in the Department of International Affairs at the University of Georgia’s School of Public and International Affairs.

Before Georgia, I was a Post-doctoral Associate with the Leitner Program in International and Comparative Political Economy at the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University. I received my Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2017.

My research is centered on international political economy and the political economy of cooperation, but I have used insights from these areas to make contributions to broader debates in international relations. Primarily, I use surveys and experiments to understand how the public and policy elites think about the global economy and foreign policy.

My research is published or forthcoming in the American Journal of Political Science, International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, Perspectives on Politics, World Politics, and other leading peer-reviewed journals. I have also published a number of pieces in Foreign Policy and on the Monkey Cage.

I have received outside support for my research from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the National Science Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, and the Stanton Foundation.

I am a Faculty Fellow at the University of Georgia Center for International Trade and Security. In my time at Georgia, I have also been a Lilly Teaching Fellow and Teaching Academy Fellow. In 2022, I won the Department of International Affairs Award for Teaching Excellence. In 2023, I won the School of Public and International Affairs Research Award.

I am affiliated with the Global Research Institute at William & Mary as a Principal Investigator on the Teaching, Research, and International Policy (TRIP) Project.

Education
  • Ph.D, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Political Science, 2017
  • MA, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Political Science, 2011
  • BA, College of William & Mary, Government, 2008
Areas of Expertise
  • Public and Elite Opinion on Foreign Policy
  • Global Economic Engagement
Honors, Awards, and Achievements
  • School of Public and International Affairs Teaching Award, 2024.
  • School of Public and International Affairs Research Award, 2023.
  • Department of International Affairs Award for Teaching Excellence, University of Georgia, 2022
  • Lilly Teaching Fellow. Center for Teaching and Learning, University of Georgia, 2020–2022
Course Instruction

Undergraduate

  • Introduction to International Relations
  • International Political Economy

Graduate

  • Pre-seminar in International Relations
  • Experiments in International Relations Research
  • International Political Economy
Research Interests
  • Domestic Politics of International Relations
  • International Cooperation
  • Survey Experiments
Selected Publications

“Judicialization and Public Support for Compliance with International Commitments” (with Harlan Cohen). Forthcoming in International Studies Quarterly.

“The Cult of the Relevant: International Relations Scholars and Policy Engagement Beyond the Ivory Tower” (with Cullen Hendrix, Julia Macdonald, Susan Peterson, and Michael Tierney). Published online in advance of print at Perspectives on Politics.

“The Myth of the Eclectic IR Scholar?“ (with Helen Milner and Erik Voeten). Published online in advance of print at International Studies Perspectives.

“Great Expectations: The Democratic Advantage in Trade Attitudes” (with Jon C. W. Pevehouse and Freddy Chen), World Politics, 75(2), 2023, pp 316–352.

“International Status Concerns and Domestic Support for Political Leaders” (with Jonathan Renshon), American Journal of Political Science, 67(3), 2023, pp. 732–747.

“Trade Politics in the Checkout Lane: Ethnocentrism and Consumer Preferences” (with Alexa Bankert and Geoffrey Sheagley), Political Science Research and Methods, 11(3), 2023, 605–612.