ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

2026–

Assistant Professor, Center for Humanities, University of Texas at Austin

2025–26

Postdoctoral Associate and Lecturer, Program on Ethics, Politics and Economics, Yale University

2023–25

David Richards Junior Research Fellow in Economic History, Wadham College, University of Oxford

EDUCATION

2023

PhD, History, Princeton University

Dissertation: “The Rise of Expert Opinion: The Bank of England and Interwar Economic Governance, 1914–1940”

Winner of the 2024 Thirsk-Feinstein Prize for best dissertation (Economic History Society)

2020

MA, History, Princeton University

2017

BA, Economics and History (Highest Honors), Vanderbilt University

PUBLICATIONS

Book

The City’s Defense: The Bank of England and the Remaking of Economic Governance, 1914–1939. Cambridge University Press, 2025.

Winner of the 2026 First Monograph Prize (Economic History Society)

Winner of the 2026 Monograph Award (European Society for the History of Economic Thought)

Peer-Reviewed Articles

“The Nazi Financial Order: Banking Law and the Credit Supervisory Office in Germany and Austria,” Central European History 58, no. 4 (2025), https://doi.org/10.1017/S0008938925101155

“Chancellor Churchill: The Treasury, Party Politics and the Making of Budget Day, 1924–1929,” Contemporary British History 39, no. 1 (2025): 23–54. https://doi.org/10.1080/13619462.2024.2391368

“Stability in Numbers: Central Banks, Expertise and the Use of Statistics in Interwar Europe,” Contemporary European History 33, no. 3 (2024): 1038–1059. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0960777323000048

“A State of Supervision: The Political Economy of Banking Regulation in Germany, 1900s–1930s,” Business History Review 97, no. 1 (2023): 93–125. https://doi.org/10.1017/S000768052300003X

“Reparations Revisited: The Role of Economic Advisers in Reforming German Central Banking and Public Finance,” Financial History Review 27, no. 1 (2020): 45–72. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0968565019000258

Book Reviews

Review of Ruins to Riches: The Economic Resurgence of Germany and Japan after 1945 (Cambridge University Press, 2025), by Raymond G. Stokes, Business History Review 99, no. 3 (2025): 491–492. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007680525101177

Review of Virtuous Bankers: A Day in the Life of the Eighteenth-Century Bank of England (Princeton, 2023), by Anne L. Murphy, Business History Review 98, no. 1 (2024): 345–347. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007680524000229

Other Publications

“Reflections upon Governing the Global Economy in the Twentieth Century,” Past & Present Blog (May 2025). https://pastandpresent.org.uk/reflections-upon-governing-the-global-economy-in-the-twentieth-century/

With Kurt Schuler and Theresa Williamson, “The Washington Consensus in History: An Interview with John Williamson,” Center for Financial Stability: Papers in Financial History (January 2020). https://centerforfinancialstability.org/speeches/John_Williamson_Interview.pdf

“The Bank of France and the Gold Dependency: Observations on the Bank’s Weekly Balance Sheets and Reserves, 1898–1940,” Studies in Applied Economics, no. 128 (October 2018). https://sites.krieger.jhu.edu/iae/files/2018/10/Bank-of-France-1-1.pdf

“Bretton Woods, Old and New: An Interview with Richard N. Cooper,” Center for Financial Stability: Papers in Financial History (September 2016). https://centerforfinancialstability.org/research/Cooper_Yee_0916.pdf

Awards, Grants, and Fellowships

Visiting Researcher Grant, Prussian Privy State Archives, Berlin, 2024

Conference Travel Grant, German History Society, 2024

Henry Kaufman Financial History Fellowship, Business History Conference, 2024

Otto Harpner Award, Anglo-Austrian Society, 2024

Alfred D. Chandler Jr. Travel Grant to the Business History Conference, 2023

Chateaubriand Fellowship in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Embassy of France, 2023

Research Grant, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), 2021–2022