Research

My research focuses on the origins, manifestations, and consequences of political violence in U.S. relations with Native American groups. In so doing, I seek to contribute to ongoing debates in U.S. Foreign Policy, International Relations Theory, and Security Studies. My book, American Conquest: The Northwest Indian War and the Making of US Foreign Policy, focuses on the processes by which U.S. settlers instigated the Northwest Indian War of 1790-1795, the political legacies of this conflict, and continuing efforts to legitimize the U.S. victory.

Publications

  • American Conquest: The Northwest Indian War and the Making of US Foreign Policy (Stanford University Press, Forthcoming).
  • “Teaching in Context” in Michael P.A. Murphy and Misbah Hyder, eds., Teaching Political Science and International Relations for Early Career Instructors (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024): 279-292.
  • (with So Jin Lee) “Staff Rides as Pedagogical Practice,” PS: Political Science and Politics Vol. 57, no. 3 (2024): 435-439.
  • (with Tobias Lemke, Jessica Auchter, Alexander D. Barder, Daniel Green, Stephen Pampinella, and Swati Srivastava) “Doing Historical International Relations,” Cambridge Review of International Affairs Vol. 36, no. 1 (2023): 3-34.
  • “Foreign or Domestic? The Desecuritisation of Indian Affairs and Normativity in Securitization Theory,” Millennium Vol. 50, no. 3 (2022): 785-809.
  • Pandemic Pedagogy: Teaching International Relations amid COVID-19 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) (editor and contributor).
  • “Do Accidental Wars Happen? Evidence From America’s Indian Wars,” Journal of Global Security Studies 6, 4 (2021).
  • “Bringing (Inter)National History into ‘Introduction to International Relations’,” Learning and Teaching 14, 3 (2021): 91-104.
  • (with Matthew E. Carnes) “Assessing an Undergraduate Curriculum: The Evolving Roles of Subfields, Methods, Ethics, and Writing for Government Majors,” PS: Political Science and Politics 50, 1 (2018): 178-182.

Book Reviews and Public-facing Publications

  • Review of Base Towns: Local Contestation of the U.S. Military in Korea and Japan by Claudia Junghyun Kim, E-IR (forthcoming).
  • Review of Making Global Society: A Study of Humankind Across Three Eras by Barry Buzan, Political Studies Quarterly (2025).
  • “What Does Andor Believe?” The Duck of Minerva (February 9, 2023)
  • (with John Arquilla) “Accidents and Escalation in a Cyber Age,” War on the Rocks (December 22, 2021)
  • “Responding to Chinese ‘Whataboutism’: On Uyghur and Native Genocides,” The Diplomat (February 3, 2021).
  • Review of A Post-Exceptionalist Perspective on Early American History: American Wests, Global Wests, and Indian Wars by Carroll P. Kakel III, American Indian Quarterly (Summer 2020).
  • “Bringing Indigenous Experiences into International Relations,” The Duck of Minerva (September 12, 2019).
  • “Syria, Afghanistan, and the Lessons of the Indian Wars,” op-ed, Indian Country Today (February 11, 2019).
  • A full list of public-facing publications is available upon request.

Works in Progress

  • “Role-Playing Indigeneity: Resistance, Alterity, and Tragedy in Assassin’s Creed III” (chapter under review for edited volume).
  • “What’s at Stake in the Indigenous Empire Debate” (article manuscript under review).
  • “‘Interconnectedness and interdependence’: Video Games as a Site of Indigenous Relationality” (article manuscript in progress; draft presented at ISA 2025)

I have been a term blogger at The Duck of Minerva since March 2023. My introductory post is here, and subsequent posts will be linked to my author profile there.