I am a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation, and received my PhD in Political Science from UC Berkeley. My research examines the factors that influence the variation and intensity of partnerships between governments and foreign militants. My dissertation develops an organizational theory of third-party provision of support: when foreign militant groups and state armed forces share similar organizational characteristics, they are more likely to form joint commands, carry out joint attacks, and provide each other with advanced weapons systems. By applying an organizational framework to this problem, I show that traits at this new level of analysis provide unprecedented analytic leverage in explaining patterns in international cooperation. My other research interests include informal cooperation and refugee decision-making. My work has been published in International Studies Quarterly, the Review of International Organizations, and the University of Chicago Law Review, among others.I draw from a variety of quantitative and qualitative methods to pursue my research interests. I have coded and analyzed large-N datasets, including international events and web-scraped social media data. I have composed in-depth case studies that draw on semi-structured interviews. I have conducted extensive field work in Jordan, Greece, and Iraq, including interviews with and participant observation of vulnerable migrants, aid workers, government officials, and Syrian militant group members. I have also designed and implemented survey and field experiments in Greece and Jordan using enumerators, text-messages, and Facebook. My regional expertise focuses on the Middle East and I am fluent in Arabic.I have worked with various aid organizations to design and implement ethnographic research projects and survey experiments. I have also worked as a translator for journalists and aid organizations in refugee camps across Greece. Prior to beginning my PhD, I worked as a consultant for the IOM Iraq Mission in Jordan and Iraqi Kurdistan. In this capacity, I traveled to various camps for Syrian refugees and Iraqis displaced by ISIS in Ninewa, Dohuk, and Erbil, interviewing and photographing beneficiaries. I have continued working with the IOM as a research consultant, leading projects that range from tracing smuggling routes from Jordan to Europe to assessing the impact of Syrian refugee returns on local host community economies in Jordan.