I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at The New School for Social Research in New York, where I study the overlapping relationships between people, the economy, and the environment. 

I am interested in questions related to:

• The production, distribution, and consumption of energy, and its relationship to environmental problems;

• Labor, both paid and unpaid, and its relationship to consumption and production processes;

• The economic growth and development of regions, and its relationship to social, economic, and environmental problems; and

• Critiques of individual, firm, and government-scale sustainability efforts.

Specializations: Feminist Political Economy, Ecological Economics, Urban and Regional Economics, Applied Econometrics, Qualitative/Ethnographic Methods, History of Economic Thought

Research Interests: The critique of political economy, household production, critiques of sustainability, theories of consumption, energy (production and consumption), local and regional economic development policy, waste and discards, unwaged work

Prior to completing my PhD,  I worked as an econometrician on demand forecasting in regulated industries, specializing in the relationship between technological change and demand for products whose prices are not determined by markets.