I am currently College Fellow in the History of Science department at Harvard University and oversee the senior thesis program for undergraduates. I earned my Ph.D. from Harvard in May 2022, and my dissertation won the 2023 Leo P. Ribuffo Prize from the Society for U.S. Intellectual History as well as the 2024 Forum for History of Human Science Biennial Dissertation Prize.

My research explores the intellectual and cultural life of capitalism in the modern United States. My book, Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America (Harvard University Press, 2025), examines how social scientists and management intellectuals reshaped the American work ethic during the turbulence of industrialization and deindustrialization. Make Your Own Job received the 2026 Merle Curti Intellectual History Award from the Organization of American Historians and was shortlisted for the 2026 Cheiron Book Prize.

In addition to my academic work, I've contributed articles on labor, politics, and American history to publications such as The New York Times, The New Yorker, Harper’s, n+1, The Nation, and more. I am also Senior Editor at The Drift, where I’ve been involved since its inception in 2020.

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