My work sits at the intersection of economic sociology, political economy, historical sociology, and the sociology of development. I study how financial institutions and infrastructures shape the relationships among the state, capital, and industry, especially during periods of rapid economic transformation. I am particularly interested in late-developing and state-capitalist contexts, where participation in frontier processes of capitalist development often precedes the consolidation of institutional and regulatory norms. 

Across my projects, I examine the formation of public debt and fiscal-financial state capacity, financialization in the transition from manufacturing-led growth to knowledge- and platform-based development, and the use of developmental finance to govern industrial upgrading and economic risks. Methodologically, I draw on comparative-historical and archival research, qualitative text analysis, and interviews, working with historical archives, policy documents, and financial and industrial data.

Two articles from this research agenda are currently at the revise-and-resubmit stage at the American Journal of Sociology and Socio-Economic Review, and a co-authored chapter on compressed development and financial expansion in China is forthcoming in the Routledge Handbook on Debt. My current research has been presented at the American Sociological Association and the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics.