My teaching combines substantive engagement with the long-run development of societies and systematic training in empirical methods. I aim to equip students with both a broad understanding of historical trajectories — inequality, development, state formation, and institutional change — and the analytical tools needed to study these processes rigorously.
Across my courses, students learn to work with historical data, evaluate quantitative evidence, and apply causal reasoning to questions in economic history and political economy. A central objective is to show how careful empirical analysis can illuminate large structural transformations and persistent inequalities.
Office hours
My office hours are on Mondays, 17:00–18:15, in room 3.C2.04 of the Röntgen building. Please email me at least 24 hours in advance to arrange a meeting, briefly indicating what you would like to discuss. I am always happy to meet with students to discuss course material, assignments, or questions related to economic history, political economy, and research more generally.
Courses taught
Bocconi University (2026-Present)
Economic History (undergraduate)
European University Institute (2022-2025)
Development and Inequality in the Long Run (graduate)
Historical Political Economy (graduate)
Analysis of Historical Data: Collection, Elaboration & Causal Inference (graduate)
London School of Economics (2018-2020)
Pre-Industrial Economic History (undergraduate)
The Internationalisation of Economic Growth, 1870 to the present day (undergraduate)
Student feedback and evaluations available upon request.