Welcome!

I am an assistant professor of history and international affairs at George Washington University. My research explores the interplay of technology and international security during the Cold War.

My first book, Weapons in Space: Technology, Politics, and the Rise and Fall of the Strategic Defense Initiative, is an international history of intensifying military space competition in the final two decades of the Cold War. My other work has been published in Foreign Affairs, Diplomacy & Statecraft, Intelligence and National Security, the Oxford Handbook of Space Security, the Journal of Strategic Studies, the International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, Science & Diplomacy, and the Journal of Slavic Military Studies.

I completed my PhD in history of science and technology at Johns Hopkins University. During my graduate studies I held a Guggenheim predoctoral fellowship at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. Prior to graduate school, I served as a U.S. Air Force intelligence officer.