Hello! I am the MacArthur Hennessy Fellow at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC). I was previously a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame where I also received my PhD in August 2024.

I am interested in questions concerning international security, nuclear politics, and racism. My work on realism and racism has been published in Security Studies and is currently under a revise & resubmit at the Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics. I also have work on political awareness of carceral and anti-immigrant ballot propositions.

I have a BA in Political Science, Anthropology, and English from the University of Miami and an MA in Political Science from the University of Notre Dame. I was previously a Hans J. Morgenthau pre-doctoral fellow at Notre Dame's International Security Center and an APSA Diversity Fellow. 

Contact me at bustama@stanford.edu