Looping and including subfigures with `&` in LaTeX – Artificial Intelligence

I am trying to loop and include subfigures in LaTex.
The dir contains the following figures:

newcommand*{fields}{
        Artificial intelligence,
        Economics,
        % Ethnic & cultural studies,
    }

I then loop over and insert each file:

begin{figure}[H]
        
        caption{Citation Degree Distribution}label{fig:citation_degree_dist}
        foreach name in fields {
            begin{subfigure}[p]{0.47textwidth}
                centering
                resizebox{.4textwidth}{!}{%
                    includegraphics[width=textwidth]{figures/citation_descriptive_stats/name}
                }
                caption{name}
            end{subfigure}quad
        }
    end{figure}

It works well, but if I include any field with & if breaks:

Missing endcsname inserted. <to be read again>

Does anyone know why this is happening and how I could fix it?