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 interdisciplinary and has been 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). The latter won the 2024 Best Book from Democracy and Autocracy section of the American Political Science Association. 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. I have held academic positions at Princeton University, Stanford University, and the University of Oxford. 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.
Faisal Z Ahmed 