Eve Boyd is a senior majoring in History with an interest in economic inequality and financial crimes. For her departmental honors thesis, she researches the correlation between the rise of offshore tax havens and the end of the era of imperialism. With the support of the URSP, her projects analyzes how colonial business was crucial in establishing the legal and financial ecosystem that has allowed the tax avoidance industry to flourish, focusing specifically on the City of London and its connection to overseas British tax havens. Through her research, Eve demonstrates how all the money swirling around the system of offshore tax havens increases global inequality, distorts markets, and deepens corruption. She hopes to use her research as a foundation for combating economic inequality. After graduation, she intends to pursue a graduate degree in a related field with the aim of learning more about the world of shadow banking and offshore finance, and the challenges of financial crimes enforcement. She hopes to go on to work as a financial crimes investigator or continue her research as an academic and educator.