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.

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. The digital version of the book can be downloaded here for free. My other work has been published, or is forthcoming, in International Security, Foreign Affairs, Diplomacy & Statecraft, Intelligence and National Security, the Oxford Handbook of Space Security, the Journal of Strategic Studies, Science & Diplomacy, and the Journal of Slavic Military Studies (among others).

I received my PhD in history of science from Johns Hopkins University. Prior to graduate school, I served as a U.S. Air Force intelligence officer.