I am a Ph.D. Candidate in political science at the University of Chicago. My research focuses on the domestic politics of international security with a regional focus on South Asia. I am writing my dissertation, “Organizing Mistrust: How Leaders Navigate Bureaucratic Resistance in Foreign Policy”, on how leaders strategically organize the foreign policymaking process based on how they resolve the conflict between two incentives: the desire to control the direction of foreign policy and the desire to preserve bureaucratic competence. My fieldwork for this project includes elite interviews and archival data collection from the Prime Ministers Memorial Museum and Library (New Delhi) and the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library.
Formerly I was a researcher at the Stimson Center’s South Asia program in Washington, DC. My commentary has been featured in Foreign Policy, The Washington Post’s Monkey Cage blog, War on the Rocks, The Wire, and The Diplomat. I hold a B.S. in International Studies from Indiana University and an M.A. in political science from the University of Chicago.
