Welcome to my site. I am an associate professor of economics at the Lazaridis School of Business and Economics at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. My research interests are in economic history and international trade.​

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Much of my current work looks at the effects of transportation on economic outcomes, such as my ongoing work on the role of railroad-induced market access on Indigenous land loss and outcomes. I also have another series of papers that leverage digitized historical trade flows data for the 19th century US to study the causes and consequences of international trade flows at the port level during the Gilded Age. Finally, I am interested in discrimination in historical settings. Some of my work in this area includes studying the ramifications of the internment of Japanese-Canadians during World War II and residential segregation of immigrants in Canada from 1891 to 1921.