Biography

Although my undergraduate degree is in archaeological studies, my interests extend into ethnography, heritage management, and disease ecology. These fields intersect through the study of health and disease in ancient nomadic societies. Fieldwork in Mongolia, Ecuador, and Alaska led to my interest in human-environment interactions and the impact on health, social practice, and cosmology. I am interested in questions relevant to past and present, such as the role of infectious disease in Eurasian steppe history, as well as deep time sustainable human-animal relations and land management. My undergraduate research focuses on the place of ochre in structuring social networks in Terminal Pleistocene Malawi and my senior thesis identifies malaria in Iron Age Senegal. At Cambridge, I plan to work with the Henry Wellcome Laboratory for Biomolecular Archaeology in exploring livestock health and disease patterns during climate cycles in medieval Ethiopia. Through this work, I hope to link herders and livestock as stakeholders in the environment and connect past climate change to challenges facing modern herding communities. At Cambridge, I also hope to continue my involvement in initiatives for health education and menstrual equity.

Previous Education

Yale University Archaeological Studies 2026