EDUCATION
Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA
Ph.D. Candidate (ABD), History
Advisor: Seth Jacobs
Expected: TBD
Dissertation: “Mad Dogs Unleashed: Anarchist Assassinations and American National Security, 1881-1907” [Working title]
Research Interests: 19 th and 20 th century U.S. foreign relations in a global context, political violence, emotion, and national security
Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
MA, History
Thesis: “Sowing the Seeds of Defeat: Dien Bien Phu and the Indochina Debacle;” William R. Keylor, advisor
BA, m a g n a c u m l a u d e
Double Major in History and International Relations [Tracks: Foreign Policy and Security Studies, European Studies]
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
May 2004
May 2004
Boston College, Department of History
Teaching Assistant
HS 063, 064: Latin America and the World (Parts 1 and 2)
HS 019, 020: Democracy, Rights, and Empire (Parts 1 and 2)
HS 063, 064: Latin America and the World (Parts 1 and 2)
Course Grader
HS 571, 572: U.S. Foreign Relations (Parts 1 and 2)
9/2011 – 5/2012
9/2010 – 5/2011
9/2009 – 5/2010
9/2011 – 5/2012
Boston University, Department of History
Course Grader
HI/IR 341: Central European History
IR 543: Changing Face of Eastern Europe
9/2003 – 12/2003
1/2004 – 5/2004
CONFERENCES
“A Public Friendship: Russian-American Relations and the Diplomatic Impact of the ‘Fleet Episode’ of 1863,” Carolina Lowcountry and
Atlantic World Program, College of Charleston, Civil War, Global Conflict , Charleston, SC, March 2011. [Under review]
“ ‘Mad Dogs’ Unleashed: The Social Impact of Anarchist Assassinations in the United States, 1890-1901,” San Jose State University,
Immigration and Social Policy: The Changing Face of America , San Jose, CA, October 2010.
“ ‘A good workman and a man who had never made any trouble:’ Gaetano Bresci and the American Reaction to King Umberto I’s Death,”
London School of Economics, 5 th LSE International History PhD Conference and Workshop , London, England, October 2010.
“The Enemy of My Enemy? Russian-American Relations and the ‘Fleet Episode’ of 1863,” University of Alabama, Second Annual Conference on Power and Struggle , Tuscaloosa, AL, March 2010.
First Year Ph.D.’s Conference , Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, September 2009.
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
W. Stull Holt Dissertation Fellowship, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (2012)
Graduate Fellow, Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy, Boston College (2011-)

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Historical Association
Organization of American Historians
Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
LANGUAGES
English – native
Spanish – highly proficient
French – reading, proficient