Calvin J. Wright

Portrait of Calvin J. Wright

I am a PhD candidate in Finance and Business Economics at the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California. Previously, I was a Predoctoral Research Assistant at the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley. I hold degrees in Economics and French from Lafayette College.

Research interests: political economy of finance, housing and real estate finance, political identity and economic decision-making, and text-as-data and machine learning.

I am on the 2026–27 academic job market.