Awards & Honors
Grants & Funded Research
- Cost-Benefit Analysis for Clayton, NC — Archlight Analytics, $65,000 (awarded; in progress), 2025
- We're Not in Dreamland Anymore: How Regional Opioid Use Rates Affect Industrial Composition — Hammer Fund Travel Award, NARSC Annual Research Conference, $750 (2021); Graduate Student Transportation Grant, NARSC Annual Research Conference, $400 (2021)
- Small Business Activity in Banking Deserts — Kenan Institute Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Small Grant, $10,000 (2018)
- The Snowball Effect of Federal Research Funding — Hammer Fund Travel Award, APPAM Annual Research Conference, $500 (2018)
Honors & Recognition
- Special Sworn Status — US Census Bureau, 2023–Present
- Elected Member — Frank Porter Graham Honor Society, UNC Chapel Hill, 2021
- Emerging Scholar — Community Banking in the 21st Century Research Conference, 2020
- Eagle Scout Award — Boy Scouts of America, 2006
Service & Editorial Roles
- Co-Principal Investigator — US Census Bureau, Federal Statistical Research Data Center, 2022–Present
- Associate Editor — Academy of Management Annual Meeting, TIM Division, 2021
- Senator, Public Policy — Graduate and Professional Student Federation, UNC Chapel Hill, 2019–2021
Referee Service
Climate Resilience & Sustainability · Public Budgeting & Finance · Public Management Review · Nature Energy · Cambridge University Press · Research Policy · Southern Economic Journal · Papers in Regional Science · Academy of Management Annual Meeting (2020–2023) · Journal of Urban Affairs · Journal of Small Business Strategy · Journal of Infrastructure, Policy and Development