2026-2027 College Fellows

History of Science

I study the intellectual and cultural history of modern American capitalism. My first book, Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America (Harvard University Press, 2025), examined the role of self-styled management and success experts in promoting the "entrepreneurial" mindset as a solution—ultimately chimerical—to problems of economic precarity and competitiveness. My new book project, tentatively titled Nothing Ever Happens: A Brief History of the End of History, uses American cultural objects ranging from postwar film noir to contemporary A.I.-powered astrology apps to charts the attenuation of a progressivist temporal logic that envisioned the future as a space of expanded freedom and human agency—and the rise of a post-historical temporality characterized by repetition, cyclicality, and anticlimax. I am also the senior editor of The Drift and write widely on American politics, culture, and economics.

Religion

I am a scholar of modern Jewish philosophy and literature interested in how modern thinkers use Jewish sources to address broader questions of representation, power, and ethics. My current book project traces how post-enlightenment German Jewish thinkers reinterpret the biblical prohibition of idolatry to develop social critiques and aesthetic theories. I received my PhD in German studies from Yale University. At Harvard, I teach modern Jewish philosophy and political thought, secularization, and media theory.

Psychology

I am a cognitive neuroscientist interested in how the brain formats information to produce complex behavior: how do we go from neurons that can only fire (or not) to our rich internal and external lives? Using fMRI and computational modeling, I seek to understand how representations of our environment change based on things like task goals or difficulty, and how these representations differ between brain regions. As a College Fellow, I teach courses on statistical thinking, how artificial intelligence differs from human intelligence, and cognitive control.

Psychology

My research focuses on finding learning strategies to improve visual long-term memory. I'm currently working with Dr. Dan Schacter to see whether drawing and tracing can be used as encoding strategies to improve memory of faces. Aside from research, I teach classes on learning strategies, amnesia, and writing in psychology.

Social Studies

I am a sociologist and demographer whose research examines ethnoracial group- and boundary making processes, immigrant incorporation, and social stratification, with a focus on Latin American–origin populations in the United States. Drawing on large-scale census and survey data, I explore how demographic change, racial classification systems, and family processes shape the transmission, transformation, and attenuation of ethnoracial identities across generations, with broader implications for the evolution of the U.S. ethnoracial structure. I received my Ph.D. in Sociology from Harvard University, and my work has received awards from the American Sociological Association’s sections on Population, International Migration, and Latina/o Sociology.

Psychology

My research explores intergroup bias – what it predicts, how it varies across people and places, and the contributing role of multiple, distinct cognitive processes. I approach these questions at varying levels of analysis: at the individual level, I rely on mathematical models to formalize the cognitive processes underlying implicit social cognition; at the regional level, I examine correlates of region-level bias and explore how cultural norms relate to ideologies, values, traits, cognitions, and attitudes.