Research 

"Combatants and Communities: Security Orders during Civil War" (job market paper)

"The End of Rebel Rule: Biased Peacekeeping Interventions and Social Order," invited to revise and resubmit at Journal of Peace Research, draft here, supplemental appendix here.

"The Innovator's Curse: First Adopters, Systemic War, and Total Defeat," draft here.

Force Employment and Decisive Battle 

The Holy Roman Empire and European State Formation, with Nicolás  Idrobo

I outline my current research program, here.

In collaboration with Dr. Nicholas Sambanis at Yale University and Dr. Andrew Fialka at Middle Tennessee State University, I am leading a large-scale data collection project to catalogue violent events during the U.S. Civil War. This inter-disciplinary project works with a diverse array of archival data, including resources from the Official Records of the War of the Rebellion, The Compendium of the War of the Rebellion,  Geographic Commands correspondence held in Record Group 393 at the National Archives; wartime governor papers held in state archives; proceedings of military court-martials from Record Group 153 in the National Archives; contemporary newspaper reporting; personal correspondence; and county histories. Our research team includes research assistants with a background in history and political science. 

Over the summer of 2022, I managed a pilot data collection project, building an original dataset of violence in Tennessee and Kentucky, which form part of the empirical focus of my dissertation. Over the summer of 2023 and 2024, I managed a team of over 20 research assistants conducting research in state and national archives and geolocating events. Data collection and entry is scheduled for completion at the end of 2024.

This unique data, when combined with high quality data on presence of military forces, census data, and electoral data will allow us to approach an array of debated questions on order, territorial control, identity, and patterns of wartime violence.