Writing Samples

Literature Review Sketch

A sketch of a literature review for my research regarding the success and failure of trade sanctions. After explaining the topic’s academic exigency, it diagrams four schools of thought in sanctions literature: domestic conditionalists, complementarians, economic realists, and demand conditionalists. It then compares these schools and describes how my proposed research would engage them.


Policy Memo: Recommendation for South China Sea Conflict

A policy memo overviewing potential US actions in response to increasing Chinese assertiveness in the South China Sea, including both conventional and soft-power strategies.


Colonial Discourse and Cultural Memory in Eurogames

A postcolonial analysis of the discursive implications of colonial themes in board games as they relate to material culture and cultural memory. Selected for publication in American University’s Writing Studies Journal for 2018.