I am a Visiting Assistant Professor of International and Global Studies at Middlebury College, where I also serve as the Track Director for the Global Migration and Diaspora track and as a Faculty Fellow at the Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs. I hold a PhD from the joint program in the Department of Political Science and the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame.

My research draws on the history of political philosophy and normative political theory to analyze issues in conflict and peace studies. I also explore the intersections of religion and politics, as well as political ideologies in East Asia. My peer-reviewed articles have appeared in—and one is forthcoming from—journals such as Polity, the European Journal of Political Theory, The Review of Politics, the Journal of International Political Theory, The Korean Review of Political Thought, International Politics, the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies, and the Journal of Religious Ethics. My book manuscript, Arendtian Peace, is currently under external peer review at a university press.

Formerly a soldier, seminarian, and NGO worker, I emphasize the close relationship between theoretical ideas and the real world of politics in my teaching. Before coming to Middlebury, I taught in the Department of Politics at Oberlin College.

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