My academic life has always run parallel to my professional one. Thirty years in crisis management taught me that crises are won and lost on information. My research asks what happens when the information environment itself is the crisis.
I’m a doctoral candidate in the PhD in Management and Public Service program at Hamline University.
Research Interests
I study how political narratives are constructed and how digital communication is used strategically to shape public perception, identity, and truth.
My work focuses on movements like the American alt-right and how they bypass traditional media gatekeepers to generate alternative narratives of truth. I work at the intersection of political communication, narrative strategy, and democratic resilience, using Foucauldian discourse analysis to examine how power operates in digital spaces.
Current Work
My doctoral research at Hamline University continues the line of inquiry I began at King’s College London, examining how political narratives and disinformation shape public discourse and what that means for democratic institutions and public service.
Publications
From Counter-Forensics to Counter-History: The Maturation of a Counter-Regime of Truth in the George Floyd Revisionist Narrative (2026). Working paper. Available on SSRN.
An examination of the counternarrative holding that George Floyd died of an overdose rather than police action: how that account matured from contested forensics into counter-history, became dominant within a substantial American epistemic community, and organized into efforts seeking presidential clemency for Derek Chauvin.
Regimes of Truth in the Digital Age: The Construction of Alt-Right Political Identity in Royce White’s Digital Discourse (2025). Working paper. Available on SSRN.
A Foucauldian discourse analysis examining how alt-right political identity is constructed through digital discourse, at the intersection of digital populism, social media discourse, and political communication.
A Discourse Analysis of Donald Trump’s and the American Alt-Right’s Conception of Truth and its Implications for Public Discourse (2023). MA dissertation, Department of War Studies, King’s College London. Available on SSRN.
Applying Foucauldian discourse analysis, this study examines the discursive strategies the American alt-right and Donald Trump employed to construct their own conception of truth, and how those practices produced deeply polarized and fragmented public discourses.
Research Profiles
You can follow my work on SSRN, ResearchGate, and Google Scholar.
Education
- Doctoral candidate, Management and Public Service, Hamline University (2023–present)
- Master of Arts, International Relations & Contemporary War, Department of War Studies, King’s College London (2023)
- Associateship of King’s College (AKC), King’s College London (2023)
- MBA, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota (2014)
- Executive Certificate, National Preparedness Leadership Initiative, Harvard University (2012)
- BS, Criminal Justice Administration, University of Phoenix (2008)
Academic Appointments
- Humphrey Policy Fellows Advisory Board, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota (2021–2023)
- Senior Fellow, Center for Cyber and Homeland Security, Auburn University (2017–2021)
- Member, Academic Board, King’s College London (2020–2021)
- Editor in Chief, Strife Blog & Journal, Department of War Studies, King’s College London (2020–2021)
- Managing Editor, Strife Blog, Department of War Studies, King’s College London (2019–2020)
- Associate Member, Forum for Private Security Research, Department of Defence Studies, King’s College London (2019–2021)
- Academic Representative, Department of War Studies, King’s College London (2019–2021)
- Humphrey Policy Fellow, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota (2016–2017)
- Member, Executive MBA Alumni Board of Advisors, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota