I was an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Research Fellow in UCD School of History. My research focused on US foreign policy during the Carter administration (1977-1981), particularly the role of National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski in the formation of policy regarding the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in December 1979. My first article, entitled "The Myth of the 'Afghan Trap': Zbigniew Brzezinski and Afghanistan, 1978-1979," was published in the journal Diplomatic History in April 2020. I also published an article on "The United States and the Soviet-Afghan War, 1979-1989" in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History (August 2020), and contributed entries to "Voices and Visions," a collaboratively-built primary source reader for US foreign relations. I completed my BA, MA, and PhD in UCD, and have lectured on US and international history in the UCD School of History, Dublin Business School, and UCD Clinton Institute for American Studies.

Modules:- The Making of Modern America, c. 1776-1945- Morning in America: Conservative Political Activism, 1960-1980- Debates in History- US Foreign Policy since 1945- Conflict in Modern Europe- Foundations of American Foreign Policy- The American Political Tradition

Modules:- American Society during the Cold War- Debates in History

Modules:- The Making of Modern America, c.1776-1945- American Society during the Cold War

Modules:- From Enlightenment to Revolution: America, France and Ireland, 1715-1815- The Age of Extremes: Fascism, Communism and Democracy, 1919-1945

Modules:- The Making of Modern America, c. 1776-1945- War and Peace in the Twentieth Century: An International History, 1914-1991- The Russian Revolution- Comparative Revolutions: The French and Russian Revolutions- Ireland: Union and Disunion, 1800-1920- Doing History II: Ireland, 1800-1900- The Irish Experience, 1800-1920

Thesis title: '"A Soviet Vietnam?" Zbigniew Brzezinski, the Carter Administration, and the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan'Supervisor: Professor Robert Gerwarth