Research

My research examines state responses to political violence, including the social construction of threats, the historical development of security institutions, and the management of violence at the international level through humanitarian law and international norms. I employ historiography, discourse analysis, and archival analysis in my research, often facilitated by Atlas.TI language analysis software. I have collected over 50,000 pages of archival texts from the Library of Congress, the British National Archives, the American National Archives, and numerous online archives.

I have previously published articles and a book chapter on the overlap of humanitarian and human rights law in the area of counterterrorism, the impact of post-colonial history on Indonesian counterterrorism policy, and the “strategy of exclusion,” or use of immigration restrictions, deportation, censorship, and other exclusionary tactics, in American counterterrorism. My work has appeared in Security Dialogue, European Journal of International Relations, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, Global Constitutionalism–Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law, and Millennium–Journal of International Studies.