I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Grinnell College. In January 2026, I will be the Associate Professor of Economic and Social History at the University of Oxford (All Souls). 

My research explores policy-relevant questions at the intersection of labor economics and economic history. I am particularly interested in periods of mass unemployment, wage structures, industrial reallocation, and inequality. In my work, I use novel archival data, econometrics, and machine learning to better understand these aspects of labor markets in the past.

My research has been published in The Journal of Economic History, The Economic History Review, and Explorations in Economic History, among others. For more details on my projects, please see the Research page.

I received my Ph.D. and Master's in economic history from the University of Oxford (Nuffield College) as a Marshall Scholar. Before joining Grinnell in 2022, I worked as an economist in the U.S. federal government's Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), where I contributed to policy and research on the regulation of the US housing market. I also bring experience from the Bank of England and RAND Corporation. My undergraduate degree is from the University of Georgia.