La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. He studies the politics of international trade, money, and finance. He is particularly interested in the domestic and international politics of financial crises and the role of the International Monetary Fund in global financial governance. He also studies European integration and the European Union, and he is an affiliate of the Center for European Studies, the Center for German and European Studies, and the Jean Monnet European Union Center of Excellence at UW-Madison.