I joined the Government and International Affairs Department at Augustana University, Sioux Falls, South Dakota as a Visiting Assistant Professor in August 2023. I earned my doctoral degree in Political Theory from Loyola University Chicago's Political Science Department, where I taught various courses in Political Theory and International Relations from January 2018 to May 2023.

My area of expertise stands at the intersection of contemporary moral political philosophy and migration studies, a research field also known as the ethics of forced displacement (EFD). The EFD focuses primarily on understanding and identifying political communities' ethical duties toward forcibly displaced people such as refugees. My doctoral dissertation, "Facing the Mass Exodus," examines protracted refugee crises and develops an alternative theoretical model to identify communities' moral obligations toward specific refugee groups created by such crises. I argue that some societies should morally do more than others in prolonged crises and that such duty distributions require the help of particular ethics-based models. My dissertation develops such a model, the "meaning-based model," and applies it to the Palestinian, Bosnian, and Syrian cases to demonstrate which members of the international community must shoulder more duties toward refugees in each crisis.

My teaching primarily concentrates on Political Theory and International Relations. The courses I taught include Introduction to Political Theory, Introduction to Government, Ancient Political Thought, Global Refugees,  United Nations and International Organizations, Nuclear Security and Proliferation, International Political Philosophy, and Middle East Politics.