Contact Information
1054 Natural History Building
1301 W. Green St.
Urbana, IL 61801
1301 W. Green St.
Urbana, IL 61801
Advisor: Dr. Brian Jefferson
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