I research the impact of technology on international security, social movements, and global governance, focusing on cyber and outer space. My work has been published in peer-reviewed journals, covered by major news outlets, including The New York Times and The Atlantic, and funded by federal grants.
I am currently a PhD Candidate in Political Science at the University of Toronto. I am also affiliated with the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy and am a non-resident fellow with the Center for Security, Innovation, and New Technology at American University. Previously, I was a researcher with the Technology and Social Change Project at Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center and an Open Technology Fund Information Controls Fellow. 🤓
Policy brief. Digital sovereignty is now at the top of the list for many liberal democratic states, a spot once occupied by policies of openness and global connectivity. This shift comes from a desire to decouple from the United States, but it comes with challenges from the overly broad definition of digital sovereignty, which includes economic development, national security, and normative goals.
Peer-reviewed article. Digital rights governance is a multidisciplinary field requiring interdisciplinary perspectives and methodological approaches. Yet, relatively little has been written about when to combine research methods and why. In this article, we present a scoping review of five recent volumes of Internet Policy Review (vols. 10–14), analysing 141 articles to assess the prevalence of interdisciplinary scholarship and its relationship to single-, multi-, and mixed methods research. Read more.
Commentary. Outer space has become increasingly privatized, with more than half of the satellites launched for commercial purposes. The problem, however, is not private-sector involvement itself, but the growing concentration of economic power in the hands of private firms that are incentivized to serve the surveillance state and further a new kind of space military-industrial complex— one that increasingly threatens civil liberties and undermines democratic accountability. Read more.