I am a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the School of Politics and Global Studies, Arizona State University. I received my Ph.D in Political Science from the Department of Government, University of Essex in 2017. In Fall 2019, I will join the School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas as an Assistant Professor. I am also a Research Fellow at the Michael Nicholson Centre for Conflict and Cooperation, University of Essex. My single-authored research has been published in International Interactions and International Area Studies Review.
My research interests include international security cooperation, state repression, political violence and human rights. I work on the Sub-national Analysis of Repression Project (SNARP) with Thorin M. Wright, Reed M. Wood, Christopher J. Fariss and K. Chad Clay - funded by the National Science Foundation. I use statistical and computational methods with an expertise in machine learning, text analysis and spatial econometrics. I received the Steven C. Poe Best Graduate Student Paper Award in 2018 for my paper entitled 'Security-Civil Liberties Trade-offs: International Cooperation in Extraordinary Rendition'. I also work with Florian G. Kern and Kristian Skrede Gleditsch on the Traditional Actors and Federal State Authorities in Interaction: Explaining Patterns of Security and Conflict Across American Indian Reservations Project - funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation. |
International Cooperation in Extraordinary Rendition
Example of New Rendition Flight Circuits - Identified by the Matching Model in Cordell (2017)
Known rendition aircraft passes through Norway in September 2005 (red line) and Kazakhstan in October 2003 (blue line)
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Central Rendition Transit Corridor - Spatial Variable Constructed in Cordell (2018)
The shortest flight path from Washington D.C. to Kabul (red line) and the airport within each country closest to the flight path (blue points)
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