Background
Josh is studying for a DPhil in Politics at the Department of Politics and International Relations. His studies are generously funded by Nuffield College and the Clarendon Scholarship.
Josh's research combines insights from computational social science, behavioural economics, and networks to study political economy, regulatory enforcement, and judicial systems in advanced democratic countries. More broadly, he is interested in developing experimental, machine learning, and computational methodologies for social science research.
Josh is from New Paltz, New York. Prior to Oxford, Josh graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College, where he received his A.B in Government (Concentration) and Economics (Secondary). At Harvard, Josh was elected a member of Phi Beta Kappa and his senior thesis won Harvard's James Gordon Bennet Prize for "best essay... on some subject of American governmental, domestic, or foreign policy."
Outside academia, Josh previously worked as a management consultant for BCG, where he focused on evaluating evidence-based interventions for tech, financial services, and government organisations.
Research Interests
- Political Economy
- Law and Economics
- Behavioural Economics
- Experiments
- Computational Social Science
