Research
Exploring the hidden architecture of communities through research in history, politics, and economics.
Coming Soon: Economic History of Greene County, Georgia
2020-2025.
Prior and Ongoing Collaborations
MIT Industrial Performance Center
Brookings Institution
P33 Chicago
VertueLab
Thesis: Burns, Bruises, and Tax Cuts: The Relationship Between Grueling Jobs and Conservative Views on Taxation
Between 2016 and 2020, I traveled through the most conservative parts of the country and took short-term jobs along the way. For my political science honors thesis at Brown University, I studied a link between the oftentimes grueling nature of the jobs in these communities and the staunch anti-tax views held by locals. Presentation of the work. Full report.
SPEAK: Diversifying Campus Speech (Founder)
- Brown Alumni Magazine (2018): Crossing the Political Divide.
- Brown Daily Herald (2018): Study Finds Most Hosted Speakers Lean Left Politically.
- Inside Higher Ed (2018): Conservative Voices Welcome at Brown.
- Washington Examiner (2018): Brown Students Launch Ideological Diversity Initiative.
- Campus Reform (2018): Students Pressure Brown to Invite More Conservative Speakers.
- SPEAK (2017): Brown University Speakers Report.
Other Writing
- Scalawag Magazine (2025): They Tried to Bury Him: The Hidden History of Abram Colby. Full Version.
- The Hill (2024): Why Biden's RFK Problem is So Strange.
- Earth & Altar (2024): What are the Origins of Christian Prayer Gestures?
- Rhode Island Opioid Data Journalism Project (2021): In an Effort to Stop One Opioid Epidemic, the VA Started Another.
- Rhode Island Opioid Data Journalism Project (2021): Rhode Island VA Hospital Tries to Help Addicted Vets.
- Brown Daily Herald (2019): Spoiling the 2020 Campaign.
- The Value of a Life in Newspapers (2016). A study of the impact of race, religion, nationality, and other variables on the coverage the death of an individual receives in the news. High school thesis.
Education
- Brown University (2020): B.A. in Political Science with Honors. Magna Cum Laude.
- Oxford University (2019): Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Course.
- McDonogh School (2016): Salutatorian.
Photos from the road
*Header photo taken of an abandoned school across from the Mississippi grocery where Emmett Till stopped in 1955.