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 project, 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.

My work has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as New Political Economy and the Journal of European Integration.

My research has been funded by the National Science Foundation/American Political Science Association. 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 European Studies from Georgetown University and a B.A./B.B.A. from Texas Christian University.

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