I am Associate Professor of International Relations at the University of Reading.  In 2024/25 I have a Leverhulme Research Fellowship. 

I have also been a Stanton Nuclear Fellow in MIT's Security Studies Program, taught at Seton Hall's School of Diplomacy and at Brown University, and received a PhD in Political Science from George Washington University.   

I study international norm dynamics, including norms surrounding war, the proliferation of nuclear weapons, and human rights.  I am also interested in how we can establish motives, intentions, or reasons for action in international relations.

My research has been supported by the Leverhulme Trust, the Stanton Foundation, the American Philosophical Society, the Josephine de Karman Fellowship Trust, and the Loughran Foundation.  

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6316-1771