I am a PhD candidate and Graduate Teaching Instructor in the Department of Economics at Colorado State University. I hold a master’s degree in economics from CSU and bachelor’s degrees in environmental policy and mathematics from the University of Tulsa.

My research focuses on evolutionary game theory, social economics, and cultural economics. I employ theoretical and empirical methods to study the social, cultural, and behavioral consequences of economic systems. In my dissertation, I develop theoretical models using cultural evolution, game theory, and networks and analyze empirical evidence from folklore, ethnography, and experimental economics to explore the influence of markets and capitalism on the evolution and behavioral expression of preferences. In the future, I aim to extend these methods to questions of ecological economics and stratification economics.