I am the J. Wilson Newman Professor of Governance and Chair of the Department of Politics at the University of Virginia.  I arrived at the University of Virginia in 2008 having taught at the University of Colorado, the University of North Texas and the College of William and Mary.  At the Miller Center I am part of the GAGE (Governing America in a Global Era) Program and am responsible for the Caplin Conference on the World Economy. 

My research focuses on broad questions of political economy where I have written on economic growth, exchange rate regimes, financial crises, capital mobility, and financial markets.  Work on the relationship between political expectations and financial market behavior cumulated in a recently published book co-authored with William Bernhard, Democratic Processes and Financial Markets: Pricing Politics.

I am presently working on a number of projects related to the politics of international migration, the political consequences of the 2007-2008 global financial crisis and the causes and consequences of global commodity price volatility.