Welcome
I'm currently a PhD Candidate in International Relations at the American Graduate School in Paris. I'm also a Harvard alumnus (ALM '18). I have more than a decade of experience working in the US government with African regional institutions and member states. My primary interests include novel quantitative political methods, cooperation theory, and political psychology. I also worked as a research assistant at the John F. Kennedy School of Government under Prof. Matthew Baum and Prof. Dara Kay Cohen.
Prior to Harvard, I received a BA in Political Science from the Burnett Honors College, University of Central Florida in 2005. And I served as a U.S. Army Captain (Ret.) from 2005-2010. My memberships include the American Political Science Association (APSA), International Political Science Association (IPSA), and Harvard Club of France. I'm also a co-founder of the American Center for Strategic and International Affairs (ACSIA), a nonprofit academic research center located in New York City. Find out more here: ACSIA Home Page
My ALM thesis research, "African Spaghetti Bowl: Assessing State Rationales in African Peacekeeping Operations, 1999-2016," explored the key factors behind African state support for United Nations peacekeeping on the continent. It won the 2019 HES Dean's Thesis Prize in International Relations. Find it here.
R replication data is available on https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/african_spaghetti.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6525-7884
GitHub: http://zhadley.github.io