About

My name is Zander. This website houses my personal blog. It contains miscellaneous observations and musings on any and all topics which I might feel like writing about.

By trade I am an economist, you can see my research profile on Google Scholar.

As of Fall 2025 I am joining the faculty at Georgia College, having previously spent the initial 5 years of my career after grad school working for ECS Federal on a contract supporting NOAA Fisheries Southeast Fisheries Science Center on issues related to recreational fishing.

I am an avid musician, specializing in the use of modular sound design and composition tools including a fledgling Eurorack system interfaced with Bitwig, and sometimes also Max/MSP. I was an Ableton user since 2012, then started the eurorack system in 2023, which prompted the switch to Bitwig in 2024.

I’m also a big sports fan, my allegiances are as follows, in descending order of emotional investment:

  1. In college football: FSU Seminoles
  2. In MLB: ATL Braves
  3. In Women’s soccer: FSU Seminoles
  4. In English soccer: Everton
  5. In European soccer: Whatever Scottish teams have made the champions and europa league that year, meaning generally the Old Firm as well as Hearts and others.
  6. In MLS: ATL UTD
  7. In any international competition: USA
  8. In any other college athletics: FSU Seminoles

I am not invested in NFL/NBA/NHL, but still watch occasionally.

Me at afternoon tea outside Exeter Cathedral