Welcome! I am an economic historian working on topics related to international trade, technology and innovation at Northwestern University, where I am a sixth-year Ph.D. candidate.Â
I am on the 2025-26 job market.
My job market paper conceptualizes technologies as "converging" when they mitigate local disadvantages to production, and thus allow places to engage in more similar types of economic activity. A key feature of these technologies is a tension between productivity and specialization: higher productivity raises welfare but lower specialization reduces the gains from trade, and the relative magnitude of these forces is unclear ex ante. We empirically and quantitatively explore these issues in the context of one of the most important technologies of the past two centuries, the first nitrogen fertilizers.
In other work, I focus on related topics in the context of 19th-century Europe, including the impact of transportation and communication technology on market integration, and innovation dynamics during the Industrial Revolution in France.