I’m an Assistant Professor in Political Science at Brown University. My research specializes in international political economy with a focus on global governance, the politics of international finance, central banking, and economic history.
My research is driven by theoretical questions concerning the evolution of global authority shaped by globalization, and the conditions for international financial cooperation and coercion. My book and related projects speak to issues concerning financial globalization, challenges to the democratic legitimacy of central banks, and their consequences for making and managing markets. I take an interdisciplinary approach in my research, drawing on substantive and methodological insights from political science, economics, history and sociology.
My ongoing book project explores why central banks choose to arrange and use swap lines in some crises and not others. I explore this question from a comparative historical perspective, tracing the use of bilateral central bank lending from the interwar period to the 2008 Global Financial Crisis. Some of my work is published in the Review of International Political Economy. My writing has also appeared in The Washington Post’s Monkey Cage and the Jain Family Institute’s Phenomenal World blog.
Prior to joining Brown, I was an Assistant Professor in Political Science at Wellesley College. I received my PhD in Government from Cornell University in 2021 and was a Global Political Economy Project (GPEP) Pre-doctoral Fellow at the Mortara Center for International Studies, Georgetown University in 2020-2021. I hold an MSc in International Political Economy from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and an (undergraduate) MA in Economics and Politics from the University of Edinburgh.
