CV

EMPLOYMENT:

The Leadership Alliance

October 2017 – Present Manager of Graduate and Undergraduate Programs

Manages Leadership Alliance’s Academic Year Workshop Program, which facilitates 16 skills-based workshops across 8 diverse campuses.
Took the lead on writing the Leadership Alliance’s Guide to Mentoring Students in Summer Research: https://leadershipallianceresources.blog/2018/05/29/mentor-guides/
Lead the content development for the Leadership Alliance’s Tips for Applying to Graduate School: https://leadershipallianceresources.blog/2018/08/17/tips-for-applying-to-graduate-school/
Spearheaded the analysis of evaluation data for The Leadership Alliance’s Career Development Workshop, which resulted in a conference presentation at Understanding Interventions 2018 and an organizational working paper.

The Tobin Project

May 2014 – June 2017 Research Analyst

Worked with the Director of Research to conceptualize and develop multi-year research initiatives on the role of the media in preventing (or abetting) special interest influence in democracies and on the practice and theory of strategic threat assessment
Identified research partners for those initiatives from both within and outside of our 600-member scholar network
Wrote article-length working papers and briefing memos that framed key research questions, developed research hypotheses, synthesized the existing literatures in political science, economics, psychology and history, and recommended high impact research interventions

May 2014 – June 2017 Graduate Student Programming Coordinator

Redesigned the Tobin Project’s Graduate Student Forum and Fellowship Program and created a Prospectus Development Workshop
Shrank the budget for graduate student programming by 25%
Implemented a national recruiting strategy
Managed the outreach to and selection of our Graduate Student Fellows
Moderated interdisciplinary research workshops for graduate students in Anthropology, Business, Economics, History, Law, Political Science, Psychology, Public Policy, Sociology, and Urban Studies.
Developed feedback on research projects conducted by graduate students at the pre-prospectus, prospectus, and ABD stages of their graduate careers
Awarded and oversaw 14-16 research grants per year

Duke University

February 2010 – 2014 Graduate Fellow

Completed a book-length research project on what governments can learn from Niccolò Machiavelli’s understanding of political violence
Officially led one and unofficially advised dozens of multi-author, interdisciplinary research projects
Acquired fluency in multiple empirical methods including process tracing, structured case comparisons, descriptive statistics, and basic survey design
Conceived and organized and raised over $10,000 to fund “Machiavelli’s Modern Legacy: Machiavelli’s Chief Writings at 500,” a conference that explored Machiavelli’s influence over the last five centuries.

August 2009 – 2014 Instructor & Teaching Assistant

Designed syllabi for and led 5 courses in political science as sole instructor
Graded coursework and led discussion sections for 6 addition courses in political science and ethics
Awarded an Ann and Robert Bass Teaching Fellowship in recognition of exemplary interdisciplinary syllabus design
Received a 5/5 instructor rating when sole instructor of record

Knox for Philly – Committee for Tom Knox

January 2006 – May 2007 Policy Director

July 2005 – December 2005 Deputy Communications Director

Duke University, Department of Political Science – Durham, NC

Graduate Student – Fall 2007 – Spring of 2014

MA awarded – 2010
PhD awarded – 2014
Doctoral Dissertation: “Between Good Arms and Good Laws: Regime-Type and Political Violence in Machiavelli.” Expected Defense: May, 2014 Dissertation Committee: Ruth Grant (Chair), Michael Gillespie, Tom Spragens, and Emerson Niou

Middlebury College, German Language School – Middlebury, VT

Tufts University, College of Liberal Arts – Medford, MA

BA Awarded, 2005 – Summa Cum Laude
Major: Political Science
Honors Thesis: “Prudence and Political Reason: Meta-politics in Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War” Defended: May, 2005

2013-14: Ann and Robert Bass Teaching Fellow, Duke University – $55,580
2012-13: Graduate Fellow, Kenan Institute for Ethics, Duke University – $5,000
2012-13: Conference Grant, Program for the Study of Democracy, Institutions, and Political Economy, Duke University – $5,000
2012-13: Conference Grant, American Values and Institutions Program, Duke University – $2,500
2012-13: Conference Grant, Center for European Studies, Duke University – $1,000
2011: Duke Summer Research Fellowship – $5,000
2008: Research Grant, Program for the Study of Democracy, Institutions, and Political Economy, Duke University – $2,800

2016-Present: Member of the Peace Science Society
2011-16: Member of the American Political Science Association
2011-12: Chair, Graduate Student Political Theory Search Committee, Duke University Department of Political Science

Fluency in German; reading proficiency in Italian and Spanish