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Academic Employment
Assistant Professor of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), October 2021--
New York University - Abu Dhabi, Assistant Professor of Economics, September 2019 -- August 2022 (Year Zero, 2019 - 2020; On leave, 2021 - 2022)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Northwestern University, Department of Economics and Center for Economic History, September 2017 -- August 2019
Academic Affiliations
Research Affiliate, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), 2024 –
Research Affiliate, Center for Economics, Policy and History (CEPH), 2023 –
Education
Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), September 2015 -- December 2017
Concentration: Economic History and Economic Development
Mentor: Paola Giuliano
PhD in Economics, George Mason University, 2015
MA in Finance, Claremont McKenna College, 2010
BA in Economics, Fudan University (minor in Legal Studies), 2009
Academic Visits
University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), Anderson School of Management, February 2026
Yale University, Economic Growth Center, September 2025 – December 2025
Toulouse School of Economics, Institute for Advanced Study, March 2018 – April 2018
Brown University, Department of Economics, January 2017 – August 2017
Fields of Interest
Economic History, Political Economy, Cultural Economics, Development Economics
Professional Activities
Referee -- American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economic Studies, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, American Economic Review: Insights, Asia-Pacific Economic History Review, Business History, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Cambridge University Press, China Economic Review, Economic Development and Cultural Change, Economic History of Developing Regions, Economic History Review, Economic Inquiry, Economic Journal, Economica, Economics and Politics, European Economic Review, European Review of Economic History, Explorations in Economic History, International Economic Review, Israel Science Foundation, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Economic Growth, Journal of Economic History, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Institutional Economics, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Peace Research, Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics, Journal of Population Economics, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of the European Economic Association, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Palgrave Macmillan, Princeton University Press, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Research in Economic History, Review of Economics and Statistics, Science, Social Science History, Swiss National Science Foundation.
Invited Seminars
2026 (scheduled) Stanford, Michigan, Caltech, UBC, UC Irvine, THEMA - ESSEC
2025 UChicago HTC Workshop, Oxford China Reading Group, Bristol, NYU Abu Dhabi, University of Bergamo, University of Birmingham, Queen's University Belfast, Utrecht, Durham, York, Paris Empirical Political Economics Seminar; (scheduled) Yale.
2024 Glasgow, LSE, Helsinki GSE, Sussex, PKU INSE, University of Auckland, Paris School of Economics, Stockholm University.
2023 LSE Public Policy, Trinity College Dublin, Universidad Carlos III, St Andrews, University of Manchester, Cardiff University, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Reichman University, Duke Kunshan, Fudan University, Notre Dame, Penn, Aix-Marseille School of Economics.
2022 LSE Asia Economic History Seminar, Chicago Booth, Oxford, University of Warwick, King's College London, Queen Mary, ISER Macro/Trade Workshop, International Macro History Online Seminar, University of Western Australia, Boston University, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
2021 London School of Economics, Yale, Peking University, Korea University, C-BID, JEES, POLECONUK Webinar, Swansea University, Northwestern Economic History Lunch, Brown Growth Breakfast, University College London (SSEES).
2020 Bonn, University of Hong Kong, LEAP Webinar.
2019 Stockholm University, University of Nottingham, George Mason University, Amherst.
Job Market Seminars: Chicago Harris, NYU Abu Dhabi, CKGSB.
2018 Toulouse IAST, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, University of Copenhagen, Université Catholique de Louvain, Higher School of Economics, New Economic School, Trinity College, UC San Diego, Northwestern.
2017 Brown, Northwestern, Williams College, UC Irvine, NYU Stern.
2016 Bonn, Toulouse IAST, Bologna, HKUST, NUS Business School, UNSW Sydney, Monash, Chapman University, UCLA Economic History Proseminar, UCLA Anderson Brown Bag, University of Arizona, UC Davis.
Workshops & Sessions Organized
2025 Co-organizer, Session ``Values, Ideology and Sentiment in Economic History," WEHC Lund.
2025 Co-organizer, Session ``Gender in a Historical Perspective," WEHC Lund.
2025 Co-organizer, Narratives and Culture in Historical Perspective, LSE. Link
2024 Co-organizer, Workshop on Institutions and Political Economy in Historical Perspective, LSE. Link
2024 Organizer, Session "Culture and Narratives," EHS.
2023 Co-organizer, LSE Chinese Economic and Social History Workshop. Link
2022 Co-organizer, Session "The Infrastructure of Power in East Asian Empires," WEHC Paris.
2022 Organizer, Workshop "History, Culture and Popular Beliefs", LSE. Link
2021 Organizer, Session "Gender Norms in a Historical Perspective," EHS.