Summary

The most influential International Relations scholar of the past 20 years (2017 TRIP survey of 1,400 IR scholars), with 50,000+ citations for constructivist IR theory. Co-authored the first peer-reviewed article in a major political science journal to treat UFOs as a governance problem, arguing the UFO taboo is structurally produced by anthropocentric sovereignty assumptions rather than evidence-based. Currently writing a book on UAP and human security.

Roles

• -Ralph D. Mershon Professor of International Security, Ohio State University
• -Author - Sovereignty and the UFO (Political Theory, 2008)
• -Contributing Author - UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record (2010)

Organizations

Education

• -PhD, Political Science, University of Minnesota (1989)
• -BA, University of Antwerp, Belgium

Early Career

• -Developed constructivist theory of international relations at Yale and Dartmouth before joining Ohio State
• -Published 'Social Theory of International Politics' (Cambridge University Press, 1999), which won the International Studies Association Book of the Decade award and became a foundational text in IR theory