I research the power and interdependence in world politics, using complex systems and network science to analyze structural power, geoeconomics, and the political economy of security. My Google Scholar page can be found here.
My research has been supported by the United States National Science Foundation and been published in peer-reviewed outlets such as Business and Politics, Economics and Politics, European Journal of International Relations, Global Networks, International Studies Perspectives, International Studies Quarterly, Perspectives on Politics, Review of International Political Economy, Social Science Quarterly, and other academic outlets and university presses.
I also appear in lay media, including The Washington Post, Foreign Policy, and The National Interest. I blogged extensively for IPE at UNC (2008-2013), The Fair Jilt (2013-2015), and the Duck of Minerva (2015-2018). I currently blog occasionally at Bespoke Human Content. I maintained an award-winning social media presence in the pre-bot era (“Duckie” award for best Twitter account, International Studies Association).
I took a PhD (Political Science) from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2013, focusing on International Relations and Political Methodology. I earned a BA (Economics) from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale in 2007, with specializations in Financial and International Economics.
I am Lecturer in the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University. Until December 2023, when I resigned in response to capricious university administration and poor state governance [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and update 7, see also AAUP and FIRE + 8], I was Associate Professor (with tenure) of Political Science at Indiana University Bloomington, where I was also affiliated with the Complex Networks and Systems dual PhD program (funded by NSF Research Traineeship initiative), the Network Science Institute, the Vincent and Elinor Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, the Institute for European Studies, and the Russian and East European Institute. From 2021-23 I was Director of Graduate Studies, Admissions, and Placement for the Department of Political Science.