Global and International Studies Building, 1002
Research Summary
I am broadly interested in the international, diplomatic, and economic history of the twentieth century. My research focuses on economic statecraft and the link between international security and political economy during the Cold War. My first book, Disruption: The Global Economic Shocks of the 1970s and the End of the Cold War, was published by Cornell University Press in 2024. My current project examines the geoeconomics of containment from the Bolshevik Revolution to the present day. During the 2024-25 academic year, I am a W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
Educational Background
- Ph.D., History, University of Virginia, 2018
- M.A., History, University of Virginia, 2014
- B.A., History with honors, Stanford University, 2011
Regions of Interest
- Russia
- Europe
- United States
Research Topics
- Russian and U.S. foreign relations
- International history
- Geopolitics of energy
- Political Economy
Representative Publications
- “The British IMF Crisis, Neoliberalism, and the Cold War,” Diplomatic History (forthcoming 2025)
- Disruption: The Global Economic Shocks of the 1970s and the End of the Cold War (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2024)
- “The West German Energy Dilemma and Soviet Natural Gas,” in Technological Innovation, Globalization and the Cold War: A Transnational History, eds. Wolfgang Mueller and Peter Svik (London: Routledge, 2022), 134-49
- “Global Reaganomics: Budget Deficits, Capital Flows, and the International Economy,” in The Reagan Moment: America and the World in the 1980s, eds. Jonathan R. Hunt and Simon Miles (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2021), 84-102
- “The Soviet Union, CMEA, and the Energy Crisis of the 1970s,” Journal of Cold War Studies 22, no. 4 (2020): 4-30
- “Western Europe and the Collapse of Bretton Woods,” International Journal 74, no. 2 (2019): 282-300 – winner of the Marvin Gelber Prize