I am an assistant professor in the department of political science and research coordinator of the Joint Initiative of German and European Studies (JIGES) at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy at the University of Toronto.

My work explores the politics of housing, financial, and labor markets in advanced economies, with regional specializations in Western Europe and the United States.

My book, Through the Roof: Housing, Capitalism, and the State in America and Germany, is under contract with Cambridge University Press. It explains the highly divergent trajectories of American and German housing policies throughout the past century, and it shows how housing programs have remade American and German capitalism.

My work has appeared in Comparative Politics, Politics & Society, the Review of International Political Economy, Socio-Economic Review, West European Politics, and Foreign Affairs.

I received my Ph.D. from the George Washington University and a B.A. from Leipzig University. I am also a former John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University.

You can find a copy of my CV here.