About Me

Welcome! I am currently a PhD candidate at Cornell University’s Department of Government. I will be on the academic job market in Fall of 2025. I study inequality, public policy, and political economy in the United States, with a particular focus on private credit markets. My recent work analyzes how and when people turn to private credit when the labor market or welfare state change and discusses the inequality-producing effects of those choices. My dissertation book project is tentatively titled Taking Credit: How Debt and its Regulation Structure the American Political Economy.

My work has been supported by the Consortium on the American Political Economy, the Morse Department of Special Collections, and the Cornell University Graduate school.

I earned my Master of Arts in Analytical Political Economy at Duke University in 2020 and my Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Michigan State University in 2018.

You can view my CV here.