Assistant Director, Stavros Center for Economic Education

I primarily teach Introductory Economics courses, but have also taught a wide variety of upper-level macro topics throughout my career.  I teach pedagogy incorporating popular media such as music, movies, television shows, and podcasts to better help students understand economic theory.

As an Assistant Professor of Urban Science at Florida State University, I investigate a fundamental question: How do the places we live in and the people we interact with shape our choices? My research develops advanced spatial models to uncover these complex relationships between context and human behavior.

I conduct research on how the lobbying profession has changed over time and why. 

I am interested in broad topics in economic theory including information economics, dynamic games, contract theory and corporate finance.

I do research in information economics, exploring how people and groups gather and use costly or ambiguous information, especially how the order and timing of data affect decision-making.

My research interests sit in the intersection of local public finances, comparative urban governance, and the politics of urban service and infrastructure provision. My previous research focused on public perceptions of local property taxes, land value capture mechanisms, and housing policy with a regional focus in the Americas.

My research focuses on transportation policy and planning to inform policy and practice for equitable and resilient transportation systems and cities in the USA and globally. My teaching interests include quantitative methods, spatial analytics, data science, and transportation planning. 

My research centers around development economics and economic demography.

My research explores comparative politics and authoritarian politics.

My research focuses on applying experimental designs and statistical methods to a wide range of empirical questions in political science. I will teach graduate and undergraduate-level courses on experiments and data science.