Professional Summary
I am a Assistant Instructional Professor at University of Chicago - Department of Economics and an honorary non-visiting Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge - Center for Alternative Finance (CCAF). These positions accurately encapsulate my two interests:
How successful am I at these two goals? According to Social Science Research Network, I am among the top 300 economic authors in the world (out of 27,361 ranked) gauged by research interest (paper downloads in past 12 months), and according to RePEC I am among the top 500 academic/research economists by Twitter followers. I maintain an active, informal Twitter account (not affiliated with my employer) where I give opinions or thoughts about current academic research, teaching practices at the college/university level, academia in general, video games, board games, current events, or any other wisps that catch my attention.
My cryptocurrency research primarily focuses on their use and implication as a globally traded alternative to national currencies or assets. This incorporates topics such as exchange rates, capital controls, and the global financial and monetary system (including Central Bank Digital Currency) especially in relation to the decentralization that comes from distributed ledger technology. I have been interviewed by various media outlets, including NPR, BBC, and Coindesk, and have given both academic and non-academic talks. I sporadically maintain a list of data sources, academic centers, and other crypto-academics for those interested.
My teaching research primarily focuses on assessment and teaching within the academic economics settings. I am comfortable teaching both micro and macro core courses (principles and intermediate, calculus and non-calculus based), as well as econometrics and computational economics (the "core skills" courses), and topics in international macroeconomics, international trade, and money and banking. I have taught writing intensive, undergraduate research-focused upper-division "topic" courses in international trade and international macroeconomics, large lectures (over 300 students), small classes (under 15 students), and have coordinated instructors and TA's across multiple principles of macroeconomics sections to create a uniform department teaching outcome (>1000 students, 4 instructors). I have received many teaching awards, and several of my undergraduate students have presented the results of their supervised research at undergraduate conferences, or won awards for their thesis. I have also advised several Masters-level thesis papers.
- making economics less insular increasing accessibility of modern economic theory to non-PhD. economists,
- examining the impact of decentralized virtual systems such as cryptocurrencies
How successful am I at these two goals? According to Social Science Research Network, I am among the top 300 economic authors in the world (out of 27,361 ranked) gauged by research interest (paper downloads in past 12 months), and according to RePEC I am among the top 500 academic/research economists by Twitter followers. I maintain an active, informal Twitter account (not affiliated with my employer) where I give opinions or thoughts about current academic research, teaching practices at the college/university level, academia in general, video games, board games, current events, or any other wisps that catch my attention.
My cryptocurrency research primarily focuses on their use and implication as a globally traded alternative to national currencies or assets. This incorporates topics such as exchange rates, capital controls, and the global financial and monetary system (including Central Bank Digital Currency) especially in relation to the decentralization that comes from distributed ledger technology. I have been interviewed by various media outlets, including NPR, BBC, and Coindesk, and have given both academic and non-academic talks. I sporadically maintain a list of data sources, academic centers, and other crypto-academics for those interested.
My teaching research primarily focuses on assessment and teaching within the academic economics settings. I am comfortable teaching both micro and macro core courses (principles and intermediate, calculus and non-calculus based), as well as econometrics and computational economics (the "core skills" courses), and topics in international macroeconomics, international trade, and money and banking. I have taught writing intensive, undergraduate research-focused upper-division "topic" courses in international trade and international macroeconomics, large lectures (over 300 students), small classes (under 15 students), and have coordinated instructors and TA's across multiple principles of macroeconomics sections to create a uniform department teaching outcome (>1000 students, 4 instructors). I have received many teaching awards, and several of my undergraduate students have presented the results of their supervised research at undergraduate conferences, or won awards for their thesis. I have also advised several Masters-level thesis papers.
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Contact Information
University of Chicago, Department of Economics 1126 E. 59th Street Chicago, Illinois 60637 |