C.V.
Updated: February 2025.
Academic Positions
Henry Chauncey '57 Postdoctoral Fellow, Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy
Yale University, New Haven CT
Postdoctoral Fellow, Mershon Center for International Security Studies
The Ohio State University, Columbus OH
2024 - 2025
2022 - 2024
Education
Ph.D., American Studies, The George Washington University
B.A., History, Northwestern University
2022
2015
Publications
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
“War is Still a Racket: Private Military Contracting, U.S. Imperialism, and the Iraq War.” American Quarterly 74, no. 3 (2022): 523-543.
“TGI Friday’s in Kandahar: Military Contracting, Taste Recognition, and Intimacies of Force in the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars.” Journal of Transnational American Studies 13, no. 1 (2022).
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Other Writing
Essay. “Forever War for Profit: The United States, Israel/Palestine, and the Global Corporate Security Economy.” Project on Middle East Political Science 54. February 2025.
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Review. “‘Changing Values and the Writing of History’: A Review of the United States Foreign Policy History & Resource Guide.” Peace & Change. October, 2024.
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Roundtable Discussion. “Shock and Awe Revisited: Legacies of the Iraq War 20 Years Later.” Passport: The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Review. September 2023.
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Essay. “Shock and Awe 20 Years Later: The Iraq War in the History of U.S. Empire.” Process. Organization of American Historians. August 2023.
Book Review. “Review of Wills, Jocelyn, Tug of War: Surveillance Capitalism, Military Contracting, and the Rise of the Security State.” H-War, H-Net Reviews. July 2023.
Op-Ed. “American Foreign Policy Has Flaws Embedded At Its Core. Iraq Proved It.” The Washington Post. March 20, 2023.
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Book Review. “Israel in the American Mind: The Cultural Politics of US-Israeli Relations, 1958-1988, by Shaul Mitelpunkt.” The English Historical Review. Oxford University Press. December 2019.​
Contribution to Edited Volume. With Thomas S. Dolan. “Rich Muslim, Bad Muslim: The Political Economy of Islamophobia.” in Global Histories and Practices of Islamophobia, ed. Abdullah Al-Arian and Karine Walther. Forthcoming 2025.
Contribution to Edited Volume. “'Money as a Weapons System': Corporate Power and the U.S. War in Iraq” in Iraq Unruled, ed. Zainab Saleh, Haytham Bahoora, and Bridget Guarasci. Forthcoming 2025.
Fellowships, Grants, & Honors
2024
Postdoctoral Fellowship (Declined)
Charles Warren Center for American Studies, Harvard University
2023
Library Research Travel Grant
Harry S. Truman Presidential Library
2022
Presidential Management Fellowship Finalist
U.S. Federal Government
2021
Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellows Dissertation Completion Fellowship
Institute for Citizens & Scholars
2021
Foreign Language & Area Studies (FLAS) Summer Fellowship
Institute for Middle East Studies, The George Washington University
2020
Waging Peace in Vietnam Essay Contest Winner
Veterans for Peace
2016 - 2020
Presidential Merit Graduate Assistantship
The George Washington University Department of American Studies
2017 - 2020
Summer Research Stipend
The George Washington University Department of American Studies
2018
Jeffrey C. Kasch Foundation Summer Funding
The George Washington University Department of American Studies
2017
History, Politics & Society Summer Program
Exeter College, Oxford University
2013 - 2015
Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship
Northwestern University
Conference Experience
Event Organizer
2023
“Shock and Awe Revisited: Legacies of the Iraq War 20 Years Later.”
All-Day Conference Event | Mershon Center for International Security Studies
March 31 | Columbus, OH
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2025
“Roundtable: Evaluating the Global War on Terror.”
Society for Historians of U.S. Foreign Relations
June 26-28 | Arlington, VA
2025
“Revolutions in Military Affairs: Private Military Contracting in the 20th Century.”
Society for Historians of U.S. Foreign Relations
June 26-28 | Arlington, VA
2025
“Roundtable: The Lasting Effects of the Iraq War and US Society & Culture.”
Society for Military History
March 28-30 | Mobile, AL
2024
“'Pentagon Capitalism': The Global U.S. Defense Economy.”
American Political History Conference
June 6-8 | Nashville, TN
2023
“Host/age Nations: Counterinsurgency and the Legacies of Empire in Iraq and Afghanistan.”
Society for Historians of U.S. Foreign Relations
June 15-17 | Arlington, VA
2022
“‘I Have Successfully Privatized World Peace’: National Security in the Marvel Cinematic Universe”
Comics and U.S. National Security | The Mershon Center for International Security Studies
November 4 | Columbus, OH
2021
“Waste, Fraud, and Abuse: Private Military Contractors, The Security State, and The Politics of Accountability.”
American Studies Association
October 9 - 13 | Virtual
2021
“Beyond Nisour Square: Private Military Contractors and the U.S. Security State”
Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
June 17 - 20 | Virtual
2019
“‘Genius, Billionaire, Playboy, Philanthropist’: Tony Stark, Iron Man, and Post - 9/11 Imperial Fantasy - Making”
Striking Back?: On Imperial Fantasies and Fantasies of Empire | Max Planck Research Group, “Empires of Memory”
September 12 - 13 | Göttingen, Germany
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2023
“Reimagining Asian/American Publics: Family, Fandoms, and Food.”
American Studies Association
November 2-5 | Montreal, Canada
2023
“Race and National Security: New Perspectives on the African American Experience.”
Military Frontiers: Graduate Student Symposium
April 21 | Columbus, OH
Selected List of Presented Papers
Chaired Panels
Teaching Experience
Spring 2023
U.S. Diplomacy in the Middle East | Instructor
Advanced Lecture Course
The Ohio State University | History Department
Spring 2021
The Iraq Wars | Instructor
Advanced Undergraduate Seminar
The George Washington University | American Studies Department
Professional Affiliations
Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
American Studies Association
Society for Military History
Language Skills
Urdu: Conversational
Arabic: Advanced Intermediate
Spanish: Intermediate