Nicole Adrian

Nicole Adrian is a fifth-year doctoral student at the University of Pennsylvania whose research focuses on twentieth-century U.S. political economy, agriculture, and the rural environment. Her dissertation examines how federal agricultural credit programs and farm debt shaped inequality, land ownership, cooperative finance, and environmental degradation in the United States. She is currently a graduate fellow at the Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy and the Business, Economic, and Financial History Project at the Wharton School, while also working with the Roosevelt Institute. Prior to Penn, she studied history, environmental studies, conservation biology, and public policy at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and later worked as a public sector consultant for the U.S. federal government.