Welcome to my website!

Welcome to my website!

I am an assistant professor of international security and law at George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government and a politics academic visitor at Oxford University’s Nuffield College.

I study how weaker states participate in the international order, seeking security institutions that address threats while constraining great powers. My research focuses on Latin America and spans humanitarian intervention, nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament, and arms control.

My first book, Orders to Protect: Latin America, Humanitarian Intervention, and Constraints on Great Powers, is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press.

My work draws on diplomatic archives, interviews, and cross-national public opinion surveys. It has appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as Perspectives on Politics, International Affairs, and Cold War History, and I have used it to inform pieces in policy outlets such as The Washington Post, War on the Rocks, and the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

I am an affiliate at the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) at Stanford University and an adjunct non-resident fellow at the Program on Nuclear Issues (PONI) at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

I was previously a Martin J. Sherwin Fellow with the History and Public Policy Program at the Wilson Center (2023), a Stanton Nuclear Security Postdoctoral Fellow (2021–2022), and a Social Sciences Postdoctoral Fellow with funding from the MacArthur Foundation (2022–2023) at CISAC.

I hold a Ph.D. and an M.A. in Political Science from Johns Hopkins University and a B.A. in International Relations from El Colegio de México. Before joining the Ph.D. program, I was a junior advisor to the Mexican Vice-Minister for Latin American Affairs.

I regularly present my work at academic conferences, think tank workshops, and United Nations events, bringing expertise on the Global South’s preferences, interests, and strategies in international security.