I am a historical archaeologist and environmental anthropologist. I study the political ecology of colonial encounters, with a particular focus on the long-term ecological legacies of colonial land management. My research and teaching interests include the anthropology of climate change, agrarian studies, contemporary and industrial archaeology, GIS applications in archaeology, heritage management, and extractivism. I direct research projects in Cusco, Peru and in Ontario, Canada.

I received my PhD (2021) and MA (2013) in Anthropology at the University of Chicago. My dissertation examined socio-ecological transformations around the town of Ollantaytambo, in Peru's Cusco region, that followed the 1532 Spanish invasion of the region. Since completing my dissertation I have held post-doctoral positions in the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society and the Program on the Global Environment at the University of Chicago. I am currently a Lecturer in Anthropology at Stanford University.

My current work in Peru builds on my dissertation by examining land use change on Ollantaytambo's immense terrace complexes through the last five centuries. My other active research project examines how colonial land management, forestry, and exclusionary conservation have shaped the landscape of Ontario's Algonquin Provincial Park.

My CV can be downloaded here.