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I am a sixth-year Ph.D. candidate in History at Yale University, where I'm currently writing my dissertation.

The project attempts to offer the first place-based history of the material and ideological consequences of the middle-Atlantic organic economy's development as it intersected with an ascendant fossil economy in eighteenth-century colonial America, and later, in the nineteenth and twentieth-century United States.​

 

At base, the project is a study of the New Jersey Meadowlands and the larger landscapes it participated in and helped to produce. By focusing upon the myriad ways in which the site has been manipulated and reinvented during times of crisis, scarcity, and war, and analyzing the far-reaching consequences of the landscape ideologies and technologies adopted during those transformations, the project offers new perspectives and methods through which to understand histories of climate change, colonialism, energy use, urbanization, and capitalism.

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In Fall 2024, I am a Teaching Fellow for the lecture course Climate & Environment in Early American History at Yale. I am also a Teaching Race Graduate Fellow at Yale's Center for Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration. Each week, I meet with a cohort of graduate students and invited speakers to discuss strategies for advancing anti-racist pedagogy in the classroom.

I have forthcoming articles in the Journal of Energy History, Landscape Research, and the edited volume New Jersey's Natures: Environmental Histories of the Garden State (Rutgers University Press, forthcoming). I will link those works here once they're published.

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You can explore the tabs above for samples from my initial training (from 2005-2019) in art, architecture, & landscape architecture, and for my recent talks, upcoming events, etc. Welcome!

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