I’m an archaeologist interested in how colonized workers were affected by and participated in globalization and industrialization in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in British-ruled southern India. My dissertation project considers small-scale, decentralized production at the rural imperial frontier, focusing on two industries: saltpeter (a key industrial commodity, particularly critical to the growing explosives industry) and earth-salt (manufactured almost exclusively for local domestic use, sometimes illegally). Combining archival sources with GIS-based analyses, I explore the locally particular ways in which the global Industrial Revolution unfolded in South India, in which producers were simultaneously industrial workers and colonial subjects. I also have expertise in a variety of remote sensing techniques, including ground-penetrating radar (GPR), magnetic gradiometry, electrical resistance, LiDAR, and photogrammetric modelling, and have worked on a variety of archaeological projects in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern United States and the Caucasus. I am passionate about public engagement and museum education, and have been deeply involved with the Penn Museum during my time here, including as a board member of the Penn Museum Graduate Advisory Council (2021-22; 2023-25).