RESEARCH INTERESTS

America in the World, U.S. military assistance and advisory groups, U.S. - East Asian relations, theories of race and culture in U.S. foreign policy,  the Korean War, modernization and development in Asia, war and militarism in memory and society. 

DISSERTATION

Militarized Modernity, Military Advisors, and the U.S. Security Architecture in the Pacific

PUBLICATIONS

"The True Horseman of the ‘Fallout’ Apocalypse," Foreign Policy Magazine, May 18, 2024. 

"Can the U.S. Rewrite Its Tortured History of Aid to the Philippines? A military long shaped by Washington’s priorities now needs to modernize," Foreign Policy Magazine, August 31, 2023.

“Interpreting Empire: English, U.S. Advisors, and Interpreters in the Korean War,” Journal of American-East Asian Relations vol. 29 n. 4 (2022): 365-390.

AWARDS

SHAFR Samuel Flagg Bemis Dissertation Research Grant, 2022.