I want to send a heartfelt reminder to anyone who reads this post: whatever dreams and goals you have, whatever it is you hope for, whatever it is you are struggling through, you absolutely can overcome your circumstances to get there. Hang in there. Patience is often rewarded in the long-run.

As they say, onwards and upwards--I am looking forward to joining the Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth College @dartmouthdickey.bsky.social‬ as a Rosenwald Post-Doc Fellow this fall. I hope I can further develop the ideas in the dissertation into a proper book project.

I am profoundly grateful and proud to have finally crossed this finish line. This has been the greatest adventure of my life. There are many people I must thank for helping me reach this moment, and I have tried to tip my hat to as many of them in the acknowledgements here.

My work straddles conflict, IR, and computational social science, too: my coauthored work with @themesolab.bsky.social and the late, great Bear Braumoeller has been published in @ajpseditor.bsky.social. I am currently a Brady-Johnson Predoctoral Fellow at the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs.

My dissertation looks at the role of time horizons in foreign policy. I use survey experiments, large-N analyses of leader attributes & behavior, and archival evidence of US presidential decision-making to understand how time horizons affect the intensity & duration of coercion.

To get at this complex relationship, we had to develop a novel generative computational model, from which emerges insights into war initiation, conditions for order formation, institutional persistence, balancing and systemic self-regulation. I could not be prouder to be part of this team.