Welcome to my website! I am an assistant professor in the Naval War College’s National Security Affairs Department and a non-resident associate of the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for the Study of Contemporary China.

My research focuses on great-power politics and China’s rise, naval power and geostrategy, and US Indo-Asia-Pacific defense and foreign policies. My work appears in Navies in Multipolar Worlds: From the Age of Sail to the Present and Security, Development and Sustainability in Asia: A World Scientific Reference on Major Policy and Development Issues of 21st Century Asia, as well as International Relations of the Asia-Pacific and Territory, Politics, Governance. I have also written for the China Brief, The Diplomat, the East Asia Forum, The National Interest, and the US Naval Institute, among others. I have testified on Taiwan issues before the Court of the Citizens of the World.

New book now available: China, Taiwan and the Crime of Aggression: An International Criminal Law Analysis of China’s Military Operations in the Indo-Pacific Region (JuraLaw, 2024).

My article with Hyun-Binn Cho is now available ahead of print in The British Journal of Politics and International Relations: “Muddied Waters: Freedom-of-Navigation Operations as Signals in the South China Sea.”

I hold an AM and a PhD in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania, and an AB in Government from Dartmouth College.

You can find out more on this website, my curriculum vitae, and X (formerly Twitter).