Education

MA, University of Virginia, 2023
BA, Yale University, 2018

Research

I study the history of capitalism in the twentieth century Arkansas Ozarks, looking particularly at the rise of three major companies and industries—Walmart, Tyson (poultry), and J.B. Hunt (trucking)—in the context of local, national, and global political economies. 

Internet and Popular Press Publications

Who Owns the Mountains?, New York Review of Books (November 2024)
The Forebears of J.D. Vance and the New Right, History News Network (September 2024)
Summer in the South Is Becoming Unbearable, The Atlantic (July 2023)
The Modern-Day Company Towns of Arkansas, The American Prospect (August 2022 issue)