About

I am a Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale and a historian of the twentieth-century United States in the world, with an emphasis on the linkages between US foreign relations and business history. My book, “Branching Out: Banking, Credit, and the Globalizing US Economy, 1900s–1930s,” argues that US multinational banks provided a crucial infrastructure of both global capitalism and US empire in the early twentieth century—and that the actions of banks and the state cannot be understood separately. The project explores the changing credit practices of overseas bankers, as US banks navigated new ways to profit from trade finance and their relationship to the US government. I have an MA from Yale in International Relations and a BA from Harvard, and I formerly worked as a journalist prior to graduate school.