I’m a historically-minded economic anthropologist studying the origins and effects of financialization in our daily lives, social relations, and political practices. My current research focuses on the history and transformation of low-income households and communities in Mexico as they have been incorporated into flows of global finance by way of policy reform, or how and why financial neoliberalism remade poverty on the global periphery. My work has been funded by the United States’ National Science Foundation (NSF) and Mexico’s National Council for Science and Technology (CONACYT), amongst others.

I’m an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Williams College. Before Williams, I was a Junior Fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows. My first book, After Inclusion: Poverty, Property, and Politics on Mexico’s Financial Frontier, is under contract with University of California Press.

I have a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Chicago, where my dissertation won the award for the Best Dissertation in Anthropology (Lichtstern Distinguished Dissertation Prize). At Chicago, I won two teaching awards. One for the Best Course and Syllabus in Ethnographic Methods, and another for the same things in Latin American Studies (Starr Lectureship Prize and Martín Baró Lectureship Prize).

Before Chicago, I studied an M.Res. at University College London and a B.A. at Trinity College, University of Cambridge. Along the way, I have consulted for the Inter-American Conference on Social Security and the World Bank.

You can email me at ie3@williams.edu.