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I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill. My major subfield is International Relations, within which I focus on International Political Economy. My minor subfield is Political Methodology. Substantive interests include the politics of international finance, the determinants of domestic and international regulatory regimes, behavioral approaches to policy reforms, and financial development in emerging markets. Methodological interests include bargaining theory and its applications across levels of analysis, socio-political complex networks theory, and time series cross-sectional econometrics.

My current work focuses on the interplay between domestic and international financial regulatory regimes, how state power and the structure of the international financial system influence policy decisions, and the behaviors of firms to the structure of markets and policy choices of governments.

I frequently contribute to IPE at UNC, a group blog covering issues and events in the global political economy maintained by faculty and graduate students at UNC.