AI Governance and Control

National Security Intelligence

Informational Politics

State Capacity

Education

• Ph.D., Political Science, University of Minnesota
• M.A., Political Science, University of Minnesota
• M.S., Political Science, University of Oregon
• B.A., Communication, University of Illinois at Chicago

Research Interests

• Technology, security and information politics: 
  • AI governance and control
  • National security intelligence
  • Information politics and state capacity

Select Publications

• Uncertain Threats: The FBI, the New Left, and Cold War Intelligence (Available for free to VCU community members)
• High-Risk AI Models Need Military-Grade Security, War on the Rocks
• Superintelligence Deterrence Has an Observability Problem, AI Frontiers
• Foreign Communist Involvement in El Salvador's War: The White Paper Reconsidered, Journal of Cold War Studies [forthcoming]
• Source Alerts Can Reduce the Harms of Foreign Disinformation (with Alexandra Reckendorf and Amanda Wintersieck), Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review
• Whistleblowers, Leakers, and Their Networks: From Snowden to Samizdat, Rowman & Littlefield (Security and Professional Intelligence Education Series)
• Secrecy in the Sunshine Era: The Promise and Failures of U.S. Open Government Laws, University Press of Kansas

Affiliations

• Southern Political Science Association
• VCU Department of Computer Science affiliated faculty member
• VCU Cybersecurity Center faculty fellow

Courses

• A.I. Governance and Ethics
• Secrecy, Surveillance, Spies, and Lies
• Senior Seminar
• Comparative Politics

Awards

• VCU Transformative Learning Fund: VIP Awards, 2023
• VCU Global Education Office Partnership Award, 2023
• VCU CHS Seed Award, 2019