I'm a PhD candidate at Johns Hopkins University and the graduate fellow for the History & Political Economy Project, a network of historians and social scientists studying the past, present, and future of neoliberalism globally. I study the origins and development of financialization since the 1950s, focusing primarily on the struggle between different financial institutions for the future of American finance; commercial banks' organizational and technological innovations; bankers' political interventions; and the consolidation of finance's political and infrastructural power. Using bankers' archives, my dissertation examines how and why American commercial banks sought to undermine the New Deal financial order and build a financialized regime of accumulation on a foundation of rising household indebtedness.