She received her Ph.D. from the University of South Carolina and joined Robert Morris University in Fall 2022. She has taught Comparative Politics, Introduction to International Relations, Social Science Research Methods, European Studies, The Conduct and Formulation of U.S. Foreign Policy, Soft Power in International Relations, American Government, and Cyber Diplomacy.

As an International Relations scholar, her research focuses on soft power, particularly the use of sports, culture, and education as instruments of influence. She developed a new soft power measurement method and created a comprehensive dataset to evaluate all countries’ use of soft power. In 2018, she received an APSA travel grant and was nominated for IPSA’s Francesco Kjellberg Award for Outstanding Papers Presented by a New Scholar for her innovative conceptual and operational approach to measuring soft power.