Welcome!

I am an Assistant Professor in Development Studies in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge.
I study how markets work and how they shape inequality, urban space, and capitalism, combining ethnographic fieldwork and computational methods.

Publications About

Appointments

2026 Assistant Professor, University of Cambridge

2024—25 Visiting Scholar, UC Berkeley

2021—25 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Oxford

2018—21 Lecturer, École Normale Supérieure

Recent publications

Centering AI Within the Political Economy of Housing

Housing, Theory and Society, 2026

Platform freedom: Financial subjectivity at the nexus of investment and social media

Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 2026

Situating African FinTech in Global Financial Networks

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 2026

Scoring high, paying up, gating in: middle-class formation and asset inequalities under digital capitalism in South Africa

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 2026