I am an assistant professor of Anthropology and Social and Critical Inquiry at the University of Connecticut. Since 2018, I have partnered with the Karuk Tribe on multimedia and community-collaborative environmental justice research. My book-in-progress examines the politics of wildfire crisis and Indigenous fire management in northern California in the unsettled colonial present. I also conduct research on counterinsurgency, far right ecologies, and “rewilding” movements of the US northwest. I am the 2025-2026 Mellon Native American Scholars Initiative Fellow at the American Philosophical Society.

 

I received my PhD from Cornell University in 2023. I am a settler of eastern and central European ancestry, born and raised on occupied Nipmuc territory 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 American Quarterly, 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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