Greetings!

I am a political scientist studying international conflict, interstate rivalries, and political methodology. My dissertation, Interconnected Rivalries, examines how rivalries shape one another through triangular relationships and centrality in rivalry networks. I also study how climate variability and disasters raise the risk of interstate conflict, and — as an NSF-funded postdoctoral scholar on Women as Leaders, Policy-Makers, and Symbols — how political violence shapes women’s access to power. My research has appeared or is forthcoming in Journal of Peace Research, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Environment and Security, Foreign Policy Analysis, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and The Journal of Politics. I received my PhD in political science from the University of Iowa and my BA and MA from Seoul National University.