He earned his Ph.D. in international business history from Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy (2006). His Ph.D. thesis on the political economy of the World Bank was published by Stanford University Press (2009) and translated in Spanish, French, Italian, Arabic, and Russian. Other publications on the history of postwar development ideas and organizations have appeared in international peer-reviewed journals, including History of Political Economy, Review of Political Economy, Journal of Global History, Development, Rivista di Storia Economica, The Journal of Modern Italian Studies, and the Journal of the History of Economic Thought. In the past, Dr. Alacevich has taught history of development ideas, U.S. foreign relations, international economic history, and the history of international organizations.