Welcome! I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Grinnell College. 

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, inequality, and poverty. In my work, I use novel archival data, econometrics, and machine learning techniques to better understand these aspects of labor markets in the past, with the hope of illuminating how similar challenges today can be addressed. 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.

Before joining Grinnell in 2022, I worked as an economist at the 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. I received my Ph.D. and Master's in economic history from the University of Oxford (Nuffield College), supported by the Marshall Scholarship. My undergraduate degree is from the University of Georgia.