I am a PhD student in the Sociology Department at the University of Chicago and a researcher at the Arrighi Center for Global Studies at Johns Hopkins University. As a historical sociologist, my work engages political economy, political sociology, and environmental sociology, with a theoretical focus on the history of capitalism and critical social theory. I am especially interested in the materialistic foundation of our social and political life.

My current research examines the hydroelectric turn in the “energy regime” during the late interwar period (roughly 1929–1939), with a transnational focus on the Japanese Empire, the United States, and Germany. Through this case, I seek to allude to the role of infrastructure and labor in state formation and the energetic foundations of systemic cycles of accumulation during the turbulent “long 1930s.”

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