Vita
Employment
02/2025—Present: Senior Advisor, Office of Postsecondary Education at the U.S. Department of Education.
07/2024—02/2025: Director of Academic Programs, Alexander Hamilton Society.
03/2021—02/2024: Senior Vice President of Education, Common Sense Society.
01/2016—03/2021: Director of Academic Programs, Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation.
08/2009—12/2015: Associate Professor of Government (tenured), Morehead State University.
09/2014—12/2015: Co-Director, Bluegrass State Intelligence Community Center of Academic Excellence.
09/2009—12/2015: Director, Commonwealth Security Studies Laboratory.
08/2010—08/2014: Government Program Coordinator.
Education
Executive Certificate, 2015. Reichman University (IDC), Herzliya, Israel. International Institute for Counter-Terrorism: Counter-Terrorism Studies.
Doctor of Philosophy, 2010. Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA, USA. Political Science: political philosophy and American government. Dissertation: “Nietzsche in a Nutshell: an interpretation of Twilight of the Idols.”
Master of Arts, 2008. Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA, USA. Politics: American government.
Master of Arts, 2005. University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada. Political Science: political philosophy. Thesis: “Socrates Must Die: the ‘problem of Socrates’ in Twilight of the Idols.”
Honours Bachelor of Arts, 2003. University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada. Political Science: political philosophy. Thesis: “Science, Myth, and Lies: the political science of Thomas Hobbes, and the foundation and character of the modern liberal regime.”
Globalization and Governance Certificate, 2003. University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.
