I am a lecturer in the Department of Political Economy. I received my Ph.D. in Political Science from Stanford University in 2024, and an M.A. in Economics from Stanford in 2022. Before coming to King’s I was a postdoc at the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance, Princeton University.

Research interests

I study international and comparative political economy. My research integrates economic geography into political economy models of policy preferences and electoral politics. I am especially interested in the politics of trade, migration, and economic change.

For more information, see https://theo-serlin.github.io.

Office hours

By appointment. Please e-mail.

Teaching

• Advanced Economics of Politics
• Statistics for Political Science

PhD supervision

I am interested in supervising students working on topics in political science and political economy, using quantitative and formal methods. I am especially interested in students working on the politics of trade, migration, and political geography.

Latest publications

“The Public Agglomeration Effect: Urban-Rural Divisions in Government Efficiency and Political Preferences,” Forthcoming, American Journal of Political Science

“Trains, Trade, and Transformation: A Spatial Rogowski Theory of America’s 19th Century Protectionism,” with Kenneth Scheve, 2025, American Journal of Political Science 69 (3): 915–929

“The German Trade Shock and the Rise of the Neo-Welfare State in Early Twentieth-Century Britain,” with Kenneth Scheve, 2023, American Political Science Review 117 (2): 557–574