I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at McGill University and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. My research intersects economic history and labor economics, where I have two broad goals: to understand the institutional roots of socioeconomic inequalities in North America; and to provide empirical evidence on the impacts of policies intended to aid marginalized populations and the barriers to their effectiveness. My work has focused on the legacy of colonization among Indigenous populations, and the economics of the Civil Rights Era.