PhD Political Science Emory University MA International Relations University of New Mexico BA History Loyola College, Baltimore, MD FIELDS OF RESEARCH: U.S. history, international history, human rights and humanitarianism, politics and diplomacy, transatlantic relations, ethnic politics, the global Cold War, European history RECENT/IMPORTANT PUBLICATIONS: Human Rights in American Foreign Policy: From the 1960s to the Soviet Collapse (Penn Press, 2015). The Ties that Bind: The History of Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan (Atlanta: SAB, 2007). “Containment, Again: A Long-Term Perspective on Recent Russian Claims,” in American Diplomacy, (April 2015) “A Southeast Asian Timebomb?: Robert D. Kaplan Takes on the South China Sea,” in Education About Asia, Winter 2014-15.