She is Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, where she joined the faculty in 2017.
[1] She is the author of the books State Death: The Politics and Geography of Conquest, Occupation, and Annexation[2] and Wars of Law: Unintended Consequences in the Regulation of Armed Conflict.
[1][3] Some of her notable research findings include that violent state death has been exceedingly rare since the end of World War II,[4] states rarely declare war,[3][5] and that improvements in battlefield medicine have led to dramatic reductions in battlefield deaths.
[1] Her dissertation advisors included Scott Sagan and Stephen Krasner.
[3][10] She was a Postdoc at the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies, Cambridge, MA.