I am an Associate Professor of Political Science at Stonehill College and a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Middle East Studies at Harvard University. My research centers on two interconnected areas: the politics of Israel/Palestine, with particular attention to democratic backsliding, state surveillance, and the experience of Palestinian citizens of Israel since October 7th; and feminist approaches to cybersecurity, disinformation, and digital politics. I am a coauthor, with Anne Sisson Runyan, Crystal Whetstone, and Murat Yilmaz, of the sixth edition of Global Gender Politics (Routledge, 2026), and I am fluent in Arabic, Hebrew, and English.
On Israel/Palestine, my academic work has appeared in the Journal of Human Rights ("Democratic Backsliding, Social Media, and Surveillance of the Palestinian Community in Israel Since October 7, 2023") and the Journal of Genocide Research ("Understanding Sexual Violence Debates Since 7 October: Weaponization and Denial"), among other venues, and I contributed the chapter "Silencing Dissent: Suppression Tactics in Israel Since October 7" to The Gates of Gaza (de Gruyter, 2024). I have presented this research at Harvard, Brown, NYU, Brandeis, and Swarthmore.
On feminist cybersecurity and digital politics, I am the coeditor of Critical Perspectives on Cybersecurity (Oxford University Press, 2024) and co-edited a special forum for Global Studies Quarterly on technology, cyberpolitics, and gender. My academic work in this area includes "A Feminist Security Studies: Addressing the Crisis of Cyber(in)security" (International Affairs, 2024) and "The (In)Security of Securitizing Gendered Disinformation" (Journal of Gender Studies, 2025).
These two areas converge directly in my most recent work on military AI: my article "Regulating Military AI: Gaza and Beyond" (Survival: Global Politics and Strategy, 2026) examines how the appearance of precision and objectivity in AI systems lends them unearned credibility as tools of warfare.
Alongside this peer-reviewed scholarship, I work to bridge academic theory with public knowledge through think tank writing and op-eds on both areas of expertise. On Israel/Palestine, I have written for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Haaretz, +972 Magazine, Middle East Eye, Times of Israel, The Jerusalem Post, The New Arab, and The National. On cybersecurity, disinformation, and digital politics, my essays have appeared in the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, Foreign Policy, World Politics Review, and The Cairo Review of Global Affairs, including "Gaza: Israel's AI Human Laboratory" and "Israel's AI Revolution: From Innovation to Occupation," both of which connect my two specializations for a policy audience. I have also advised organizations including the Center for Feminist Foreign Policy and 7amleh–The Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media.
At Stonehill, I teach Global Security Studies, Political Science Research Methods, U.S. Foreign Policy, Political Islam, Politics of the Middle East, Terror, State and Society, Cybersecurity, Politics of "Fake News," and International Politics. I serve on the Steering Committee for the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Social Justice at Stonehill, and have held leadership roles with the Feminist Theory and Gender Studies Section of the International Studies Association, including as Program Co-Chair.
Learn more about me here, here, and here.
On Israel/Palestine, my academic work has appeared in the Journal of Human Rights ("Democratic Backsliding, Social Media, and Surveillance of the Palestinian Community in Israel Since October 7, 2023") and the Journal of Genocide Research ("Understanding Sexual Violence Debates Since 7 October: Weaponization and Denial"), among other venues, and I contributed the chapter "Silencing Dissent: Suppression Tactics in Israel Since October 7" to The Gates of Gaza (de Gruyter, 2024). I have presented this research at Harvard, Brown, NYU, Brandeis, and Swarthmore.
On feminist cybersecurity and digital politics, I am the coeditor of Critical Perspectives on Cybersecurity (Oxford University Press, 2024) and co-edited a special forum for Global Studies Quarterly on technology, cyberpolitics, and gender. My academic work in this area includes "A Feminist Security Studies: Addressing the Crisis of Cyber(in)security" (International Affairs, 2024) and "The (In)Security of Securitizing Gendered Disinformation" (Journal of Gender Studies, 2025).
These two areas converge directly in my most recent work on military AI: my article "Regulating Military AI: Gaza and Beyond" (Survival: Global Politics and Strategy, 2026) examines how the appearance of precision and objectivity in AI systems lends them unearned credibility as tools of warfare.
Alongside this peer-reviewed scholarship, I work to bridge academic theory with public knowledge through think tank writing and op-eds on both areas of expertise. On Israel/Palestine, I have written for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Haaretz, +972 Magazine, Middle East Eye, Times of Israel, The Jerusalem Post, The New Arab, and The National. On cybersecurity, disinformation, and digital politics, my essays have appeared in the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, Foreign Policy, World Politics Review, and The Cairo Review of Global Affairs, including "Gaza: Israel's AI Human Laboratory" and "Israel's AI Revolution: From Innovation to Occupation," both of which connect my two specializations for a policy audience. I have also advised organizations including the Center for Feminist Foreign Policy and 7amleh–The Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media.
At Stonehill, I teach Global Security Studies, Political Science Research Methods, U.S. Foreign Policy, Political Islam, Politics of the Middle East, Terror, State and Society, Cybersecurity, Politics of "Fake News," and International Politics. I serve on the Steering Committee for the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Social Justice at Stonehill, and have held leadership roles with the Feminist Theory and Gender Studies Section of the International Studies Association, including as Program Co-Chair.
Learn more about me here, here, and here.