About

My new book, Saving Apartheid: White Internationalism at the End of the Cold War, is forthcoming with Columbia University Press in March 2026. In the years writing this book, I received generous support from the Social Science Research Council, the Mellon Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center and the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University.

In addition to Saving Apartheid, you can find my academic writings in Cold War History and Diplomatic History. Public facing work from me has appeared in Washington Post, Inkstick Media, AJ+, and CNN International. I have received multiple awards for my work including UT-Austin’s Outstanding Dissertation Award for 2023 Humanities and Fine Arts, the Lathrop Prize for the Best Dissertation in History, finalist for the Toynbee Prize First Book Manuscript Prize, Honorable Mention for the Bernath Scholarly Article Prize, and semi-finalist for the Janne Nolan Prize for Best Article on National Security / International Affairs.

I received a PhD in History from the University of Texas at Austin in 2022, conferring an MA in History en route. I graduated with highest distinction and highest honors from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2016.

Originally from North Carolina, I currently live in Atlanta and am a Senior Fellow with Southern Methodist University’s Center for Presidential History.