Hi, I’m Brandon

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I am a PhD student in the Department of Political Science at Boston University

I study the political economy of security, finance, and state-business relations, focusing on financial market actors’ role in geopolitics and how states provide security guarantees during times of uncertainty.

My current project looks at banking and finance professionals in the US and their response to geopolitical disruptions in global trade, and applies experimental survey techniques to assess their support for state intervention under varying risk conditions. By investigating the limits of economic pacifism, the study sheds light on how market actors’ preferences shift during times of uncertainty.

I am currently affiliated with BU’s Center for Innovation in Social Science (CISS) and Northeastern’s Transnational Political Networks project, and was a Graduate Student Fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society during the 2023-2024 Academic Year.

My work has been supported by BU’s Department of Political Science and the CISS, Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center, and jointly by Northeastern’s CIWAC and the Carnegie Corporation of New York.