Ph.D. Student | Past: J.D., Combat Veteran | Researching: Grand Strategy, Constitutional Law, U.S. Foreign Policy

Welcome to my website. I am a Ph.D. student in the University of Virginia’s Department of Politics and a nonresident fellow of Columbia Law School’s National Security Law Program, where I will be an America in the World predoctoral fellow beginning in fall 2026. My research explores grand strategy and constitutional law, with an emphasis on U.S. foreign policy.

My academic work has appeared in the Texas National Security Review and in edited volumes. My commentary can be found at War on the Rocks, Lawfare, The National Interest, the Modern War Institute, Providence, and elsewhere.

I hold a B.S. (with honors) in American politics from the United States Military Academy at West Point, an MPhil. (with distinction) in intellectual history from the University of Cambridge, where I was a Rotary Global Scholar, and a J.D. (with pro bono distinction) from Stanford Law School, where I was a Jacobson scholar.

For more about my background and interests, see my About page and CV.