Overview
I am an Assistant Professor of History, democratizing education through research and teaching at the University of Memphis. I blend ancient history and modern science to explore Mediterranean environments, technologies, and society. I completed my Ph.D. at Stanford University with the dissertation ‘The longue durée of human-geological environment relationships in Helike, Greece.’ My interests include Mediterranean history and archaeology, human-environment relationships, resilience, political ecology, postcolonial theory, archaeological science, geoarchaeology, and soil micromorphology. My fieldwork in Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, and Armenia aims at understanding how people impacted and responded to environmental change as reflected in technological and material choices, over the long-term — from prehistory to the present. My work has been supported by Stanford's Environment, Energy & Sustainability Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellowship, National Geographic, and the Council of American Overseas Research Centers.