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Martin is an Associate Professor of Economics and joined Rutgers in Fall 2023. He was previously the William and Jeanette Smith Associate Professor of Economics at Oberlin College and holds a B.S.B.A. from the Catholic University of American and both M.A. and Ph.D in Economics from University of Pittsburgh. Martin primarily works in the fields of economic history, health economics, and labor economics, with research interests that include the economics of infectious disease, infant health, and the World War II internment of Japanese Americans. His current projects use natural language processing techniques to measure sentiment in historical newspapers. Martin currently serves on the Editorial Board of Explorations in Economic History.