Seth is currently a Ph.D. Candidate at the MIT Sloan School of Management’s Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER). His research sits at the intersection of Political Economy and Economic Sociology, focusing on how groups and communities develop shared understandings that impact their possibilities for economic development.

He has had direct experience researching these issues in Baja California, Tamaulipas, and Jalisco, Mexico, as well as in Guatemala, Colombia, and South Texas (Lower Rio Grande Valley.) His academic work has been published in World Development and he is currently working on a dissertation provisionally titled “Repertoires of Contestation and Collaboration in Divergent Development along the U.S. - Mexico Border.”