Experience

Institute for National Strategic Studies
• United States
• Research Services
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Senior Research Fellow

  • Oct 2022 - Present


National Defense University

• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Research Fellow

  • Jan 2018 - Nov 2022

  Washington, DC



RAND

• Kazakhstan
• Mining

• Research Assistant/Adjunct Researcher

  • Sep 2008 - Jan 2018

  Conduct Arabic and English language research and analysis on a wide range of security issues related to the Middle East and North Africa for RAND's National Security Research Division.



University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• Research
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Graduate Student/Teaching Assistant

  • Aug 2011 - May 2014

  Assist in instructing courses in the Political Science department Provide research support to projects on the Arab Spring, as well as third party intervention strategies in civil conflicts Masters Thesis: "Terrorists or Troublemakers? Regime Survival and Inflating the al-Qaeda Threat"

• Adjunct Faculty

  • Sep 2012 - May 2013

  JFK Special Warfare Center and School, Fort Bragg, NC Built and instructed courses for active duty US military personnel. Courses for the 2012-2013 Academic Year included: -Political Islam -Rulers, Symbols, or Soldiers? Military, State, and Society in the Middle East and North Africa


CFSOCC-Afghanistan
• Commander's Initiatives Group

  • Aug 2010 - Nov 2010


Middlebury College

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Assistant

  • Sep 2007 - May 2008

  Assisted a professor with research for a forthcoming book on Political Islam.