WELCOME!

I am the Deputy Chair of Multilateral Diplomacy in the Political Training Division of the U.S. Department of State’s Foreign Service Institute and a Nonresident Senior Fellow of Public Opinion and Foreign Policy at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.

I received my Ph.D. in Political Science from Syracuse University's Maxwell School in 2014. Prior to my current role at the State Department, I was a professor of political science at the University of Illinois at Springfield, where I also served as the inaugural director of the School of Politics and International Affairs. During the 2023-2024 academic year, I was a Jefferson Science Fellow at the U.S. Department of State.

I am the author of Governing Abroad: Coalition Politics and Foreign Policy in Europe (University of Michigan Press, 2022), which received the 2022 Best Book in Foreign Policy Analysis Award from the International Studies Association.

My research also appears in International Studies Perspectives, European Journal of Political Research, British Journal of Politics and International Relations, Journal of European Public Policy and European Security, among other outlets.

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