I am a Visiting Assistant Professor in the College of Social Studies and the Department of Economics at Wesleyan University and a WID Fellow at the World Inequality Lab. I also held visiting positions at the Paris School of Economics (PSE) and the Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global Transformations (WIGH) at Havard University. I am a member of the Latin American Society for the History of Economic Thought (ALAHPE) and a former grantee of the History & Political Economy Project of the Arrighi Center for Global Studies at the Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD)

Applying historical political economy as an analytical framework, I integrate the history of economic ideas with statistical methods to examine how economic thought, economic policy, and income and wealth distribution interact under capitalism. My current research on Latin American neoliberalism positions Peru as South America's earliest instance of neoliberalization, uncovers the region's influence on Theodore Schultz’s human capital theory, and connects Cold War neoliberalism and religious conservatism to the intellectual origins of contemporary far-right movements. Under the project “South American Brahmins,” I am also reconstructing Distributional National Accounts (DINA) for Peru, creating the largest dataset of its kind for the region. Finally, my book project “Enacting Underdevelopment: Capitalism, Inequality, and the Rise of Authoritarian Futures,” offers a comparative critique of the idea of development across high- and low-income economies.

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