Researcher

Action-oriented, policy-driven researcher with a track record of successful project production and completion utilizing qualitative methodologies.

Co-Principal Investigator and Postdoctoral Fellow creating a Global Oral History of the President’s Emergency Plan for Aids Relief (PEPFAR), launching first-of-its open-access qualitative database of interviews with key PEPFAR stakeholders

Action-oriented policy researcher delivering qualitative data on threats and harassment facing local officials, utilizing expertise in political violence, U.S. politics, and technology
o In Their Own Words (2023); Mecklenburg County (2022); Grand Traverse (2022)

Designed and executed a six-year research project on global white nationalism, utilizing qualitative research methods, resulting in peer-reviewed publications, receiving five awards in national and institutional competitions, >$100K in grant funding, and giving >25 public, academic, and policy presentations.
o Book Contract: Saving Apartheid: White Supremacist Internationalism at the Cold War’s End, (Columbia University Press)
o Articles: “Reagan Foreign Policy” (2022); ”Infernal Handiwork” (2021), ”Tending the Flock” (2019)
o Awards: Honorable Mention for the Bernath Scholarly Article Prize, Finalist for the Toynbee Prize First Book Manuscript Workshop, Semi-Finalist for the Janne Nolan Prize for Best Article on National Security/International Affairs.
o Selected Presentations: World Affairs Council of Dallas-Ft. Worth, U.S. Air Force Academy, Triangle Institute for Security Studies, Georgia Institute of Technology.

UT-Austin’s Outstanding Dissertation Award for 2023 for Humanities and Fine Arts
UT-Austin’s Lathrop Prize for Best Dissertation in History

Master of Arts, History, University of Texas at Austin 2018

Bachelor of Arts, History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill