Welcome!

I am an associate professor at Wellesley College. I study and teach political economy with a substantive focus in international economics and politics. My work is published in various journals, such as the American Political Science Review, American Economic Journal – Macroeconomics, Explorations in Economic History, Review of Economics and Statistics, Quarterly Journal of Political Science, and Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization. 

Some of my research on authoritarian globalization features in two books, The Perils of International Capital (Cambridge University Press, 2020) and Conquests and Rents: A Political Economy of Dictatorship and Violence in Muslim Societies (Cambridge University Press, 2023). Other strands of my work explore topics in development economics, political violence, sovereign finance, and the political economy of migration. 

I earned a BA in mathematics and BA/MA in economics from Northwestern University and later completed my doctoral studies at the University of Chicago. Before transitioning to academia, I spent a few years as an international and macroeconomist at the White House Council of Economic Advisers and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.