About Me
This website features my work as a research economist and as a ceramicist.
I am an associate professor of economics at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, where I've been a member of the Department of Economics since 2007.
My academic research uses applied econometrics and experimental methods and touches on questions in social and cultural economics, economic history, labor economics, and entrepreneurship.
My active research projects explore 1) the labor market effects of automation and 2) what the working lives of craft entrepreneurs tell us about meaningful work in a relentlessly automating world.
I have been making things with clay, primarily functional ware using handbuiding techniques, for two years. I'm a member of Brick Ceramic and Design studio, also in Cleveland.