About me

I am an LSE Fellow in IPE in the Department of International Relations at the London School of Economics.

My research examines the relationship between capitalism and empire in the making of global order. My work contributes to scholarly debates in IR, IPE, security studies, political theory, and the history of US foreign policy. My previous work has been published in Review of International Political Economy and Oxford Research Encyclopaedia of International Studies.

My first book project, Reforming Empire: The Making of the US Foreign Policy Establishment, investigates the rise of US power in the world from the Spanish-American War to the postwar period. It argues that US government officials and their advisors drew upon a global process of imperial reform as they forged the institutional foundations of a US-centred global order. American designs for a reformed global order in this formative period were derived not primarily from an American exceptionalism – conceived as a domestic project exported to the world – but from an engagement with really existing empires, including the American state’s own colonial empire in the Caribbean and the Pacific. The project draws on a range of primary sources and contributes to debates on postwar American hegemony by recentring the imperial contexts from which it emerged.

My second major research project moves to the contemporary period to examine transformations in the political economy of money and finance since the global financial crisis of 2008. Drawing on policy documents, the reports of bank economists, interviews with elite and civil society actors, and new critical political economy frameworks for analysing the political foundations of money and credit, the project contributes to the contemporary struggle to re-politicise money and the role of monetary policy in global politics.

Prior to joining LSE, I completed my PhD in Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. I also hold an MA from the University of British Columbia and a BA from Ithaca College.