I am a historian of the United States and wider world specializing in political economy, policy, business, urban, and labor history. I am currently a Departmental Lecturer in the University of Oxford's Faculty of History, and a Research Associate at University College.

In my research, I examine the responses of members of the business community, subnational community organizations, organized labor, and elected officials (national and local) to the economic instability of the 1970s and 1980s. I am particularly interested in the history of deindustrialization, p discussions of industrial policy, the  'Rustbelt', the US steel and automobile industries, the history of economic development, and trade policy. My book, tentatively titled State of Development: Preserving the American Economic Century in an Era of Anxious Capitalism, will be published by Columbia University Press.