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My research aims to bridge mainstream and critical approaches to the study of policing from an international perspective. Building on my dissertation, my current book project examines the evolution of the global governance of policing through three phases: the development and spread of colonial policing methods, IOs and the era of “human rights-based policing” under United Nations (UN) leadership, and the modern dominance of multinational PSCs promoting purportedly unbiased and technologically advanced policing.
My broader research program builds on the underexplored internationalism of modern policing. My dissertation research appears in the edited volume The Imperial Entanglements of Policing (Julian Go & Stuart Schrader, eds.) I have several paper projects from the dissertation that explore IOs and PSCs in international policing, respectively. Finally, I am co-authoring a manuscript with Brittnee Carter (University of Kansas) that explores international police reform outcomes for human rights in post-conflict contexts, such as freedom from arbitrary arrest and the right to assembly and association.
Photo taken by the author at the World Police Summit in Dubai 2025
Beyond policing, my research combines quantitative and critical approaches to IR. In 2024, I published an article with my co-authors Austin Carson (UChicago) and Eric Min (UCLA) in International Organization. In “Racial Tropes in the Foreign Policy Bureaucracy,” we analyze almost 5,000 President’s Daily Briefs from 1961-1977 to argue that states viewed as “racialized Others” are described more frequently with implicit racial tropes. I am expanding on this collaborative work with a manuscript on gendered language in foreign policy analysis.
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