About Me

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I am an Assistant Professor in the Political Science Department and the International Politics and Economics Program at Middlebury College, where I have been teaching since 2018. I earned my Ph.D. in Political Science at Boston College in 2016, was a Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow at the European University Institute in 2016-2017. For fun, I enjoying cooking, skiing, and hiking with my wife Becky and our 4 year-old daughter Adelaide.

My research focuses on the politics around trade, global business, and the technology sector with a particular emphasis on using case studies methodology as a way to understand international political economy within its social, cultural, and historical context. My first book, Competitiveness and Death: Trade and Politics in Cars, Beef, and Drugs, was published with the University of Michigan Press in 2021. I have written scholarly articles and chapters for edited volumes on WTO plurilateral negotiations such as the Information Technology Agreement and the Environmental Goods Agreement, how digitalization is facilitating the burgeoning international trade in services, intellectual property and the trading relationship between the United States and China, a comparative analysis of pathways toward regulatory cooperation that could satisfy business and activists, the role of public opinion in shaping trade politics, technology and the changing geography of trade, and the political development of regulation as the centerpiece of international trade negotiations. On the Research page, you can find brief descriptions of and links to all of these works.

I am currently working on projects related to 1) large technology companies and their populist critics, 2) capitalism-friendly environmentalism, 3) trade liberalization and racial equity, and 4) regulatory facilitations of work-from-home. 

My teaching is predicated on a lively, interactive classroom style that combines brief presentations, question-and-answer periods, group exercises, and simulations. The heart of political economy is problem-solving around tradeoffs. These inter-weaving formats in class are designed to get students to think about those problems and tradeoffs from multiple perspectives simultaneously. I have taught courses on International Political Economy, The Politics of Taxes, International Law, The Politics of Big Technology, The Politics of Money and Finance, Intro to International Politics, and the The Political Economy of Climate Change. On the Teaching page, you can find sample teaching material and student evaluations from each of these courses.