I am a postdoctoral Visiting Fellow at the Department of Economic History at the London School of Economics and Political Science (2024-2026). My work is at the intersection of political economy, economic history, and development economics. I study how market integration and global economic shocks shape political identities and institutional choice, with a focus on the Global South.

I am on the 2025-2026 academic Job Market.

My Job Market Paper (submitted) studies how increases in market integration following a mineral revolution triggers the formation of a white settler national identity that promotes institutionalized racial segregation in South Africa. My ongoing work examines how marginalized populations respond to disenfranchisement through nationalist mobilization, and how global price shocks and liberalization policies contribute to the erosion of coercive labor regimes, such as slavery.

I obtained my doctoral degree (PhD) at the Harris School of Public Policy and was a Pearson Scholar at the Pearson Institute for the Study and Resolution of Global Conflicts at the University of Chicago, USA. I previously obtained degrees in Economics (BA & MA) and History (BA) from the Universidad de los Andes at Bogotá, Colombia.