Welcome

I am an Associate Professor of Political Science in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at the Mississippi State University. My primary research agenda investigates government decentralization, security privatization, and non-state actors' involvement in conflict processes. I adopt a broad theoretical conceptualization of government decentralization that encompasses governance at multiple levels (national and international) and conceptualizes decentralization as shifts from public to private provision of security. 

My research has been supported by Mississippi State University's ORED ($10,200) and Strategic Research Initiative (SRI) Faculty Seed Funding (FSF)  ($10,000), Defense Security Cooperation University ($477,433), Joint Special Operations University ($29,158), and the United States Agency for International Development ($99,925). 

I received my Ph.D. in Political Science from Texas A&M University and a B.A. in Political Science from Whitworth University.