As a comparative political economist, I use my knowledge of advanced statistical methodologies, seven languages and travel to over 40 countries to examine the economic outcomes of political institutions, state-market interactions, the political actors driving the process and the inequalities between the winners and losers in this process.
I am currently an assistant professor of political economy at Duke Kunshan University as well as a visiting fellow with the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies at Stanford University. I completed my Ph.D. at Georgetown University, and I am working on a book manuscript dealing with the political determinants of switches between privatization and nationalization in Eastern Europe and beyond. My research bears directly on how we view the link between democracy and market capitalism, the economic consequences of populism, rising illiberalism in recent political transitions, and state capitalism. Before joining DKU, I was a postdoctoral fellow at the Harriman Institute at Columbia University, a postdoctoral fellow with the Skalny Center for Polish and Central Eastern European Studies and a George F. Kennan short-term scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars.
My CV is available here: CV.
As a comparative political economist, I use my knowledge of advanced statistical methodologies, seven languages and travel to over 40 countries to examine the economic outcomes of political institutions, state-market interactions, the political actors driving the process and the inequalities between the winners and losers in this process.
I am currently an assistant professor of political economy at Duke Kunshan University as well as a visiting fellow with the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies at Stanford University. I completed my Ph.D. at Georgetown University, and I am working on a book manuscript dealing with the political determinants of switches between privatization and nationalization in Eastern Europe and beyond. My research bears directly on how we view the link between democracy and market capitalism, the economic consequences of populism, rising illiberalism in recent political transitions, and state capitalism. Before joining DKU, I was a postdoctoral fellow at the Harriman Institute at Columbia University, a postdoctoral fellow with the Skalny Center for Polish and Central Eastern European Studies and a George F. Kennan short-term scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars.
My CV is available here: CV.
Recent Research
More information on the 25th Anniversary Challenge Grant from the IBM Center for the Business of Government is available here.
On December 6th, 2023, the IBM Center for the Business of Government organized an event launching the book and I participated on a panel with Renata Miskell (Treasury Department) and Kayla N. Schwoerer (SUNY Albany).
Additional information on the book can be found here and information on the event can be found here.
I received a follow up grant from the IBM Center for the Business of Government for which I am developing a larger version of the project under the title "The Global Quest for a Quantum Leap. Cooperation and Competition in Quantum Technology."
On December 6th, 2023, the IBM Center for the Business of Government organized an event launching the book and I participated on a panel with Renata Miskell (Treasury Department) and Kayla N. Schwoerer (SUNY Albany).
Additional information on the book can be found here and information on the event can be found here.
I received a follow up grant from the IBM Center for the Business of Government for which I am developing a larger version of the project under the title "The Global Quest for a Quantum Leap. Cooperation and Competition in Quantum Technology."
