I am a Ph.D. candidate in International Relations at Georgetown University’s Department of Government. My research focuses on state-business relations in the digital economy and the (geo-)political power exerted by digital platform companies.

In my dissertation, I study the political implications of states’ reliance on foreign digital platform companies to provide essential infrastructure and services. In other work, I examine the politics of self-regulation by Big Tech, global negotiations over the taxation of digital services, and the transatlantic politics of data sharing and privacy.

I draw on a range of data sources and methodological approaches including survey experiments, elite interviews, and process tracing in in-depth case studies.

My work has appeared in peer-reviewed journals including Nature Communications, New Political Economy, the Journal of European Integration, and Comparative European Politics.

My research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the American Political Science Association, the Institute for Humane Studies, and Georgetown’s Tech & Public Policy Program. During the 2022-2023 academic year, I was a pre-doctoral fellow with the Global Political Economy Project at the Mortara Center for International Studies.

I hold an M.A. in Government and an M.A. in European Studies from Georgetown University, and a B.A. in Political Science and B.B.A. in Management from Texas Christian University.

You can contact me at jh2176 [at] georgetown [dot] edu.