Education:

• Ph.D., Politics and International Relations (concentrations: political theory, comparative politics), University of Southern California, 2012
• M.Sc., Violence, Conflict and Development, The School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 2005
• M.A., Liberal Arts, Graduate Institute of St. John's College, Annapolis, 2002
• B.A., English, B.A., History, Atlantic Union College, 1999

Principal Research Interests

• Ethics
• Philosophy of Religion
• Christian Ethics
• History

Research Area Highlights:

• 2013 Field Research, Religion and resistance to genocide, East Timor.
• 2011 Field Research, Religion and Resistance to the Shining Path Insurgency, Peru.
• 2008 Field Research, Marxian Ideology Among Shining Path Members in Prison, Peru.
• 2006 Field Research , Human Rights Violations inside Maison Centrale Prison, Guinea.

Email: [email protected]

AWARDS

• U.S. Fulbright Scholarship, Burma/Myanmar
• Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, Wellesley College
• Glovin Edowed Scholarship, Oskar Shindler Humanities Foundation
• Social Science Research Council Religion and International Affairs Dissertation Workshop Award