I'm an Associate Professor of Instruction in International Relations in the School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies at the University of South Florida. I am also a Research Fellow at the National Security Archive in Washington, D.C. I received my Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Irvine. My teaching and research interests intersect the fields of intelligence studies, international law, global governance, and foreign policy, focusing on the tension between security, human rights, and accountability. I am currently working on three major research projects. The first is a Digital National Security Archive set titled "CIA Covert Operations: The Truman Years, 1946-1953" which will be published by ProQuest in the fall of 2025. This set is a collection of over 2,500 declassified U.S. government documents related to the founding of the Central Intelligence Agency and its first covert operations. Second, I am working on a book (with Luca Trenta) that presents a vivid documentary history of CIA covert operations through the lens of U.S. government meeting minutes from 1947 to 1991. Third, I am working on a book manuscript, Impunity Thrives in (Legal) Darkness: Intelligence Operations, Secret Law, and the Limits of Accountability, that highlights the use of secret laws by advanced democracies to reduce legal accountability costs.
Prior to my doctoral studies, I received my B.A. in History and M.A. in Political Science from San Diego State University. Finally, as someone with a permanent visual disability (Cone-Rod Dystrophy), I value and support the advocacy and research of the Foundation Fighting Blindness.
Prior to my doctoral studies, I received my B.A. in History and M.A. in Political Science from San Diego State University. Finally, as someone with a permanent visual disability (Cone-Rod Dystrophy), I value and support the advocacy and research of the Foundation Fighting Blindness.
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