I am a doctoral candidate in sociocultural anthropology at the University of California at Berkeley, with a secondary focus on science and technology studies. An unusually interdisciplinary scholar, I also hold graduate degrees in economics and in human geography. 

I was part of the 2021–22 cohort for the Social Science Research Council’s Andrew W. Mellon International Dissertation Research Fellowship. I am also a past recipient of the M. Estellie Smith Award from the Society for Economic Anthropology; the Andrew & Mary Thompson Rocca Dissertation Research Grant; and graduate merit scholarships at both the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I have presented my research at the Society for Social Studies of Science, the Society for Economic Anthropology, the British Institute in Eastern Africa, the Department of Anthropology, Gender, & African Studies at the University of Nairobi, and the Center for African Studies at Berkeley.

I currently have two manuscripts in submission: “Refusing money, rejecting relations: the epistemological and political consequences of a development randomized controlled trial in Western Kenya,” co-written with Mario Schmidt; and “Hayek’s anthropology: freedom, evolution, and the ghosts of neoliberalism.”

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I currently live in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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