​My research centers on the history of the modern human sciences, with a particular emphasis on the history of economic, psychological, and anthropological thought. My work on the social and economic dimensions of the modern human and life sciences in particular emerges out of a broader interest in the intertwined histories of modern science, technology, and capitalism.

I received a BA in History from Oxford University in 2012, an MA in International History from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland in 2014, and a PhD in the Program for the History of Science and Medicine at Yale University in 2023. You can download my CV here.

Economy of Desire: The Sciences of Human Wants

My current book project offers a comparative history of scientific ideas about human desires, wants, and motives, across the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Britain, Austria, and the United States. In it, I argue that the secularization of the human sciences, and the decline of introspective methods for investigation of mental states and feelings, produced parallel behavioristic turns across much of the emerging disciplines, with profound impacts on political and economic life--and our understanding of ourselves to this day.
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Peer-Reviewed Publications

“Maps of Desire: Edward Tolman’s Drive Theory of Wants,” History of the Human Sciences 36.1 (2023). (Winner of the journal's Early Career Prize.)

Cognitive map illustrated in Tolman (1949)