Contact Information
1054 Natural History Building
1301 W. Green St.
Urbana, IL 61801
1301 W. Green St.
Urbana, IL 61801
Research Interests
Political geography
Infrastructure and mobility
Nuclear geopolitics
Science and technology studies
Cold War
Grants
- Craig H. Neilsen Foundation Fellowship | 2023-27
- Schlesinger Travel Grant | 2024, 2025
- AAG Council Award for Outstanding Paper Grant | 2024
- AAG Student Travel Grant | 2024
Awards and Honors
- List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent | Fall 2023, Fall 2024
- Third Place Graduate Student Poster, West Lakes, American Association of Geographers | 2023
- Graduate College Conference Presentation Awards | 2024, 2025
- AAG Council Awards for Outstanding Graduate Student Papers at a Regional Meeting | 2024
- College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, LAS Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching | 2025
- Office of the Provost, Campus Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching | 2025
- Institute of Australian Geographers Conference Award for Outstanding Paper Presentation | 2025
Courses Taught
Primary Instructor
- GGIS/ESE 210 Social & Environmental Issues | Summer 2024
- GGIS/GLBL 221 Geographies of Global Conflict | Fall 2024
- GGIS 204 Cities of the World | Spring 2025, Fall 2025
- GLBL 296 Geographies of Nuclear States | Spring 2026
Teaching Assistant
- GGIS/GLBL 221 Geographies of Global Conflict | Fall 2023
- GGIS/ESE 379 Intro to GIS | Spring 2024
Graduate Assistant
- GGIS 223 Geopolitics & Technology | Summer 2025
- Develop GGIS 223 as an online course
Mentorship
- Graduate Academy for College Teaching for New Graduate Students | Fall 2024, Spring 2025, Fall 2025
- Mentoring Matters Summer Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 2024, 2025
- Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship Program | 2024-25, 2025-26
- URISA Geospatial Professional Network Mentoring | 2025
Professional
- Summer School in Open Science and Research Software Engineering | 2024
- Certificate in Geopolitical Analysis, Stratfor Center for Applied Geopolitics at RANE | 2024
- Conference Assistant, Society for Social Studies of Science | 2025
- Conference Assistant, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting | 2024, 2025
- Member, Ethics Council, Korea-America Association for Geospatial and Environmental Sciences | 2024-26
- Treasurer, Geography Graduate Student Association, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 2023-24
- President, Geography Graduate Student Association, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 2024-25
- Member, ADA Coordinator Student Advisory Committee, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 2025-26
Additional Campus Affiliations
- Graduate Student, The Program in Arms Control and Domestic and International Security
- Graduate Student, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory