Biography

I grew up in Carbondale, Illinois and went to school at The Ohio State University, where I learned some Spanish and some anthropology, met a girl, and explored the Midwest. After finishing my MPhil in Anthropology at Cambridge, I moved to southern California to complete my PhD in Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. I completed a Postdoc in the Department of Anthropology at UCI, and I am now the Managing Director of Research at the Filene Research Institute in Madison, Wisconsin. At Filene, I lead a research team and group of fellows doing research on and in support of credit unions and collaborative finance.

I've written on a range of topics related to money, technology, and alternative economies, from solidarity and bureaucracy in urban Ecuador to cell phone-enabled financial services, zombie banks, and Bitcoin.

Previous Education

Ohio State University Anthropology 2006