Public Engagement

This page collects public talks and public-facing writings. I welcome new opportunities for collaboration and public engagement, so please feel free to reach out.

"Understanding the past with machine learning," 2025 LEAP Lecture

Delivered at Stellenbosch University in November 2025 at the invitation of LEAP (The Laboratory for the Economics of Africa's Past).

Public-facing writing

"The end of the gold standard and the beginning of the recovery from the Great Depression," VoxEU 2024

VoxEU column with Jason Lennard published April 2024, referencing our paper "Devaluation, Exports, and Recovery from the Great Depression" (JEH 2026).

"Industrial, regional, and gender divides in British unemployment between the wars," EHS The Long Run 2020

EHS The Long Run blog published September 2020 based on my dissertation research.