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RESEARCH INTERESTS
International human rights law, institutions and practices; domestic political violence; international governance and judicial institutions; institutional solutions to bargaining and cooperation problems; challenges of using observational data for inferences over strategic processes.
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Vanderbilt University
Associate Professor of Political Science, College of Arts & Sciences.
Nashville, Tennessee, July 2018 to present.
Director of Graduate Studies, Political Science, August 2019 to present.
University of California, Merced
Assistant Professor of Political Science, School of Social Sciences, Humanities, & Arts.
Merced, California, July 2013 to June 2018.
University of Alabama
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science, College of Arts & Sciences.
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, August 2010 to May 2013.
EDUCATION
Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.
Ph.D., Department of Political Science, August 2010. Dissertation: Conflict Processes and Courts: Repression, Dissent, and the Role of Domestic and International Legal Institutions
Committee: Clifford J. Carrubba, David R. Davis, Jennifer Gandhi, and Jeffrey K. Staton.
Master of Arts, Political Science, May 2009.
Qualifying exams in international conflict and security, international political economy, and methods (game theory and quantitative methods).
Webster University, Saint Louis, Missouri.
Bachelor of Arts degrees in International Relations and Religious Studies, minor in Spanish, interdisciplinary certificate in International Human Rights, certificate in student leadership, May 2004.
Summa Cum Laude; Honors in International Relations and Religious Studies.
ReseaRch
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Teaching
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POSITIONS IN THE DISCIPLINE
Program Chair for the 2022 Society of Political Methodology Annual Meeting at Washington University in St. Louis
International relations co-editor of the Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy
Member of the editorial boards for the American Political Science Review, the Journal of Theoretical Politics, and Political Research Quarterly
Conflict Processes Program Co-Chair for the 2018 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association
Coordinator of Online Speaker Series (2015-2019) and Councilor (2018-2022) for the Peace Science Society
AWARDS
2021 Vanderbilt University Faculty Advisor Award in the Social Sciences
2020 ISA Best Book in International Law, Honorable Mention
2017 Outstanding Alumna Award from the College of Arts and Sciences of Webster University
2016 Early Career Award from the Women's Caucus of the Midwest Political Science Association
Bruce Russett Award for the Best Article published in the Journal of Conflict Resolution in 2014
2012 Best Paper in International Relations presented at the Midwest Political Science Association Meeting
“Science is more than a body of knowledge. It is a way of thinking;
a way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility.”