Contact Information
1054 Natural History Building
1301 W. Green St.
Urbana, IL 61801
1301 W. Green St.
Urbana, IL 61801
PhD Candidate
Research Interests
Political geography
Infrastructure and mobility
Rhetoric and media studies
Science and technology studies
Cold War
Grants
- Craig H. Neilsen Foundation | 2023-27
- Schlesinger Travel Grant | 2024, 2025
- AAG Council Award for Outstanding Paper Grant | 2024
- AAG Student Travel Grant | 2024
- George Beatty Fellow | 2026
Awards and Honors
- List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent | Fall 2023, Fall 2024
- Third Place Graduate Student Poster, West Lakes, AAG | 2023
- Graduate College Conference Presentation Awards | 2024, 2025, 2026
- 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
- Third Place Graduate Student Paper, West Lakes, AAG | 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
- GGIS 204 Cities of the World | Fall 2025
- GLBL 296 Geographies of Nuclear States | Spring 2026
- GLBL 296 Geographies of Nuclear States | Fall 2026
Teaching Assistant
- GGIS/GLBL 221 Geographies of Global Conflict | Fall 2023
- GGIS/ESE 379 Intro to GIS | Spring 2024
Research Assistant
- Geo-coded data set on bombing locations and IDP/refugee movements in Ukraine | Summer 2022
Graduate Assistant
- GGIS 223 Geopolitics & Technology | Summer 2025
Mentorship
- Facilitator, Graduate Academy for College Teaching for New TAs | Fall 2024, Spring 2025, Fall 2025, Spring 2026
- Graduate Student, Mentoring Matters Summer Institute | 2024, 2025
- Mentor, Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship Program | 2024-25, 2025-26
- Mentor, URISA Geospatial Professional Network Mentoring | 2025
Professional
- Graduate Student, Summer School in Open Science and Research Software Engineering | 2024
- Graduate Student, 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, 2026
- Member, Ethics Council, Korea-America Association for Geospatial and Environmental Sciences | 2024-26
- Treasurer, Geography Graduate Student Association | 2023-24
- President, Geography Graduate Student Association | 2024-25
- Writing Across the Curriculum Seminars for TAs | 2026
- Modular Emergency Response Radiological Transportation Training | 2026
Additional Campus Affiliations
- Graduate Student, The Program in Arms Control and Domestic and International Security
- Graduate Student, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory
- Graduate Student, ADA Coordinator, Student Advisory Committee