I joined the Department of Political Science, Philosophy, Religion, and Legal Studies at Winthrop University, Rock Hill, South Carolina, as an Assistant Professor of Political Science in August 2025. Earlier, I taught for two years at Augustana University's Government and International Affairs Department as a Visiting Assistant Professor and for four years at Loyola University Chicago's Political Science Department as a part-time Instructor. 

I earned my doctoral degree in Global Politics and Political Theory from the Department of Political Science at Loyola University Chicago. My area of expertise lies at the intersection of contemporary moral and 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 the ethical duties of political communities toward forcibly displaced people, such as refugees. My research focuses on three aspects of this question. The moral philosophy aspect concentrates on enhancing the concept of 'outcome responsibility' to strengthen our ethical obligations toward refugees. The IR aspect focuses on developing a constructivist moral duty approach, which creates a dynamic obligation scale for different actors toward different refugees in different cases. The experimental aspect examines public attitudes toward refugees, with a particular focus on moral positions and their impact on citizens' policy preferences.

My teaching is primarily centered on International Relations and Political Theory. I have taught courses on various topics, including political theory, government, ancient political thought, global refugees, the United Nations and international organizations, nuclear security and proliferation, international political philosophy, and Middle East politics.