I am an Associate Professor in the Public and Nonprofit Management program at the School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas. My research includes work on government finance and migration. Through the work on government finance, I seek to understand how state and local governments manage fiscal risk and navigate organizational, economic and political environments to achieve longer-term fiscal health while also maintaining service-level solvency. More broadly, I study how fiscal institutions and governance arrangements affect public sector financial performance. This work includes papers on public sector retirement systems, municipal annexation, local environmental sustainability transitions, city fiscal reserves, and fiscal health. My past research on migration in post-Soviet economies has inspired my work on the fiscal implications of human migration in other contexts. At UT Dallas, I teach courses in public sector economics, statistics, research design, financial management for non-profit organizations, public administration theory, and fiscal and budgetary policy.
