She earned her doctorate from The Johns Hopkins University in 2011. Her publications include The Microbial State: Global Thriving and the Body Politic (2017); “Politics of the Living Dead: Race and Exceptionalism in the Apocalypse,” Millennium: A Journal of International Studies (June 2017); “Theorizing Violence in the Responsibility to Protect” in Critical Studies on Security (2013); a chapter entitled “Microbes” in Making Things International 1: Circuits and Motion (University of Minnesota Press, 2015); and ”Planet Politics: A Manifesto from the End of IR” in Millennium: Journal of International Studies (October 2016).