I am currently an Assistant Professor of Economics at The University of Alabama. My research interests include Urban, Real Estate,  Regional and Public Finance Economics. In Urban and Regional Economics my research focuses on understanding and measuring industrial agglomeration patterns and how urban structure may affect optimal property tax decisions. Recent work in Real Estate has focused on valuing visual amenities in cities though the use of deep learning methods and automated street photo scraping. My Public Finance research considers such topics as the role of taxes in vacation home growth rates and how support for higher education funding by is affected by the racial composition of students and voters. My work has been published in the Journal of Urban Economics and Regional Science and Urban Economics and has been presented at the NBER Summer Urban Institute, the Boston and Richmond Federal Reserves, the AREUEA ASSA sessions, and in  as well as the national and international UEA conferences. I am also a founder of two startups, City Detect and Future Streets Design. City Detect uses custom made cameras mounted on garbage trucks and AI to scan cities for code violations. Future Streets Design uses aerial imagery and AI to provide cities with low cost 'paint-ready' bike lane routing.

I was previously an Assistant Professor at the University of Richmond (2015-2017).  From 2008-2015 I was an Assistant Professor of Economics at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, CT. I received a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Colorado-Boulder (2008), and a B.S. in Economics with a minor in Mathematics from Northern Michigan University (1999).