Unknown artist, English School, Prospect of Littlecote House, 1701–1730. Oil on panel. Royal Armouries, I.269.
Family, Environment, and Empire in the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic
My current book project traces the co-evolution of families and environments across the long eighteenth century, placing families at the center of reciprocal processes through which they transformed landscapes while environmental conditions reshaped family life. Using empire as both a geographical and analytical framework, it examines how kinship, household strategies, property, labor, and migration shaped practices and beliefs about the natural world.
INSECts for a Sustainable Environment and Circular Bioeconomy
I serve as a co-PI (Christine Picard, Professor of Biology, PI) on this project, which brings together researchers across disciplines to develop sustainable insect-based bioeconomies and transform global agrifood systems. I help shape the Center’s transdisciplinary research framework and lead the Human-Insect Nexus pillar, which examines the historical, cultural, social, and economic dimensions of insect bioeconomies, with particular attention to how human-insect relationships shape both material practices and the imaginaries through which those relationships are understood.
Data and AI Literacy In the Liberal Arts
I serve as a co-PI (Mohammad Al Hasan, Professor of Computer Science, PI) on this project, which develops and studies approaches for integrating data and AI literacy across the liberal arts curriculum. We design project-based interventions, examine their effects on student learning, and bring computational and liberal arts perspectives together to build technical fluency alongside the critical, contextual, and interpretive capacities central to liberal arts education.
Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Plan of Rome from Le Antichità Romane. ca. 1756.
Marble Map of Rome
As co-PI (Liz Thill, Associate Professor of Classics, PI), I will be collaborating on developing a digital ontology for complex multimodal archaeological data sets and refining an AI process for georectifying historical maps.
Ray Bradbury in his home office.
Archiving the Ray Bradbury Collection
I serve as co-PI (Jason Aukerman, Director of the Ray Bradbury Center, PI) on this project to process 186 linear feet of manuscripts created and collected by Ray Bradbury.
Frederick Douglass Family Scrapbooks, c. 1861–1907. Compiled by Lewis Henry, Frederick Jr., and Charles Remond Douglass; mixed media, paper ephemera and news clippings. Walter O. Evans Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Civics Kits
I am PI (Lasana Kazembe, Associate Professor of Urban Education, co-PI) on this civic-literacy project to develop intergenerational activities for understanding democratic institutions, practices, and participation.