International relations, political science, foreign policy, and book reviews.
I’m an assistant professor of political science and expert on U.S. foreign policy and international relations at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst (and I am also affiliated with the Commonwealth Honors College there). I also write a newsletter, Systematic Hatreds , about political science and (more or less) current events.
I research two questions: How do domestic institutions shape U.S. foreign policy? And how does U.S. foreign policy shape international order? The former shapes my dissertation (now being prepared as a book project) into the relationship between the emergence of political parties and the development of U.S. foreign policy. Separately, I investigate the relationship of global energy markets to domestic and international politics.