Originally from Akron, Ohio, I grew up with a keen sense of what it means for capital to exit a geographical place, and what kinds of physical artifacts were left in its wake. But through the course of my academic career at Brown University and UC Berkeley, it became ever clearer that capitalism entails more than just hulking factories. My work explores the history of American finance and politics, in particular the ways in which the growing participation of working-class Americans in mass financial institutions shaped ideas about capitalism, class, race, gender, and nationhood during the Gilded Age. Outside of academic history, I am an avid soccer enthusiast, reader of science fiction, and the secretary of the UC graduate student workers’ union, UAW-2865.