His research interests include the international politics of the Middle East, American foreign policy, great power politics, energy and geopolitics, and nuclear security. His ongoing book project book project focuses on the causes of great power security conflict and cooperation through the lens of the Cold War diplomacy of the Arab-Israeli conflict between the June 1967 War and the 1979 Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty. His research has been published in the Journal of Cold War Studies, Security Studies, and International Security. He earned his Ph.D. in political science in June 2016 from UCLA. Previously, he was the Stanley Kaplan Postdoctoral Fellow at Williams College and a Stanton Nuclear Security Predoctoral Fellow in the Security Studies Program at MIT.