Welcome! I am currently completing my PhD in the Department of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst with an expected defense date of May 2026. My research and teaching interests are in International Political Economy, International Relations, and Business Studies/Economic Sociology. At the forefront of my work is exploring the restructuring of the global economy in a post-neoliberal global order and the influence of corporate elites and business power in shaping these transformations .

I have two primary empirical foci: geoeconomic competition and transnational corporate networks. As states increasingly adopt internally (ex. industrial policy, investment screening mechanisms) and externally (ex. export-controls) oriented policies to mitigate perceived geopolitical vulnerabilities of economic interdependence, my research seeks to elucidate the factors explaining variation in the ability for governments to direct firm activity towards geoeconomic strategies.

In this context I am particularly interested in how the managers of multinational corporations (MNCs) are navigating a global economy that is increasingly contentious and fragmented as a result of US-Sino competition, deteriorating transatlantic relations, and emerging powers’ challenge to Western economic power. In turn I explore how the efficacy of state geoeconomic strategies depend on leveraging influence over MNCs domestically and abroad, and the sources of interest alignment and divergence between states and transnational capital.