PhD Economist with a Focus in Applied Analysis

I am an Economics PhD from North Carolina State University. My dissertation, titled “The Economics of Grain Deficits: On-Farm Storage and Spatial Price Transmission in North Carolina,” was completed under the supervision of Barry Goodwin and Nicholas Piggott.

More broadly, my work focuses on agricultural and spatial economics, risk management, and applied econometrics in corn, wheat, and soybean markets. My work applies quantitative methods to assess temporal and spatial price efficiency in agricultural commodity markets, while advancing the economic theory of commodity storage and spatial econometric methods. This work addresses practical considerations, such as the viability of on-farm storage investments in the U.S. Southeast as well as the impacts of heterogeneous supply shocks on grain-deficit, rail-dependent markets.

Additionally, I have a strong foundation and experience in agricultural economic extension. I have worked directly with North Carolina row-crop producers and commodity boards in studying the profitability of on-farm storage. I have published non-technical research summaries in the NC State Economist, delivered presentations at regional expos, and was awarded second place in the nationwide 2024 AAEA graduate student extension program competition.

I hold a PhD and MR in Economics for North Carolina State University and a BA in Economics from Sewanee: The University of the South.