I am an Assistant Professor of Economics in the Department of Business Administration and Economics at Saint Mary’s College in Notre Dame, IN. My interests sit at the intersection of culture, institutions, and economic growth. Often, I use the disaster recovery context to reveal how social life and economic life shape one another. Before coming to Saint Mary’s, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Economics at New York University, and before that a Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics at Beloit College. I earned my BS in Chemical Biosciences and Economics from the University of Oklahoma and my PhD in Economics from George Mason University.