Contact Information
3120 Lincoln Hall
Urbana, IL 61801
M/C 454
Phone: 217-300-6396
Biography
Prior to joining UIUC, I worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Sciences Po in Paris. I received my Ph.D. in sociology from the Ohio State University in 2018 and received a BA from the University of Kansas.
Research Interests
Economic Sociology; Environmental Sociology; Theory; Political Economy; Global and Transnational Sociology; Political Sociology
Research Description
My research combines classic themes from political economy, economic sociology, and inequality to understand contemporary socio-economic problems. I am broadly interested in the way global capitalism has transformed over the last half century. At the heart of this change is a major shift in the balance-of-power and material distribution. I follow these threads in three research tracks. First, I have studied "financialization" in relation to the restructuring of global production, corporate power, and state theory. Second, I have done research on inequality including between labor/capital across various projects as well as several focused on workplace wage gaps. Third, and more recently, I apply some of these themes to climate change. I am interested in forces driving in greenhouse gas emissions including exploitation, austerity, and stagnating growth. Going forward, I will explore the historical roots of some of these dynamics in a project on US state's economic and energy policies from the postwar period through the 1970s.
Courses Taught
Soc 200: Introduction to Social Theory
Soc 226: Political Sociology
Soc 500: Classical Social Theory
Soc 501: Contemporary Social Theory
Soc 596: Political Economy
Soc 596: Political Sociology
External Links
Recent Publications
Forthcoming. "The Wages of Investor Power: Shareholder Exploitation in Europe" (with Davon Norris) - Social Forces.
2024. "Decarbonization and the Capitalist State" - Sociology Compass.
2024. "Are IMF Programs Raising Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the Global South?" Socio-Economic Review.
2023. "Who Benefits from Migrant and Female Labor? Connecting Wages to Demographics Changes in French Workplaces" (with Olivier Godechot and Mirna Safi) - Sociological Forum. 38(4): 1198-1219.
2022. “Class Power in Hard Times: Excavating Nicos Poulantzas’s Theory of the Capitalist State through the History of the 2007-8 Crisis” Critical Historical Studies. 9(2): 195-220.
2022. “Financialization Goes South: Foreign Capital Flows and Financial Accumulation in Emerging Markets.” International Journal of Comparative Sociology. Available Online.
2021. “Did the ‘Real’ Economy Turn Financial? Mapping the Contours Financialization in the non-Financial Corporate Sector” New Political Economy. 26 (5), 817-831
2019. “Profiting in a Warming World: Investigating the Links between Capitalist Profitability and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in OECD States.” Sociological Forum. 34(4). 974-998.
2019. “Citadels Privilege: The Rise of LLCs, LPs and the Perpetuation of Elite Power in America” (with Michael Nau) - Economy and Society. 48(3): 399-425.