I am an assistant professor at the University of Connecticut in the Departments of Anthropology & Social and Critical Inquiry. I am an environmental anthropologist, a visual anthropologist, and a critical theorist of settler colonialism. My research focuses on environmental and climate justice movements in the U.S. west, imperialism and militarism, and film methodologies. My book-in-progress examines the politics of wildfire and prescribed burning in Karuk aboriginal territory in the unsettled colonial present.

 

I received my PhD from Cornell University in 2023. A settler scholar originally from occupied Nipmuc land in eastern Massachusetts, I am an award-winning filmmaker with a BFA in film and television from New York University and an MA in folklore from the University of Oregon. My scholarship has been published in venues such as Environment and Society: Advances in Research, Security Dialogue, Western Folklore, the Trumpeter: Journal of Ecosophy, and the Routledge Handbook of  Ecocultural Identity.

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My research has been supported by a Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant as well as fellowships from the Center for Engaged Scholarship and Cornell's Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies.