About

I research and teach in the fields of international relations, comparative politics, and peace and conflict studies. I am an Assistant Professor with concurrent appointments in the Department of Defence Studies at the Royal Military College of Canada and the Dallaire Centre of Excellence for Peace and Security within the Canadian Defence Academy. I hold a PhD in political science from the University of Toronto, and I was previously a research associate at the Centre for International Policy Studies and the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa.

I specialize in peacekeeping, peacebuilding, global security governance, and the political sociology of international organizations. My current book project, Intrusive Impartiality: Change, Learning, and the ‘Assertive’ Turn in United Nations Peace Operations, investigates changes in how the norm of impartiality is applied on a day-to-day basis in UN peacekeeping missions. I track the emergence, spread, and institutionalization of new, more forceful ways of being ‘impartial,’ with a regional focus on UN missions in West and Central Africa. The book manuscript is under contract with Oxford University Press.

My work has been supported by grants and fellowships from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), the Ontario government, the University of Toronto, Global Affairs Canada, the Department of National Defence, and the International Studies Association.