She received her Ph.D. at Florida State University in 2014 and was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Washington University in St. Louis from Fall 2014-Spring 2015. Her research and teaching interests fall broadly in the fields of international relations and comparative politics. More specifically, she is interested in human rights, international organizations, international law, and comparative political institutions. Her work seeks to illuminate the extent to which international law constrains state human rights behavior. Her research appears in The Journal of Peace Research, International Studies Perspectives, and Paradigm-Routledge Publishers.