I'm a historian of transnational environmental connections between modern Latin America and the United States. My current research focuses on the environmental history of migration from the U.S. West to northern Mexico between the 1880s and 1950. My book manuscript, Transplanted Roots: Community, Colonization, and Environment in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, examines transnational colonization projects through the lens of water, food, and the politics of natural resource management in Chihuahua and Sonora. 

I hold a B.A. in Latin American Studies from Davidson College and a Ph.D. in History from the University of California, Berkeley. I'm currently a Postdoctoral Scholar Teaching Fellow at the California Institute of Technology. Prior to arriving at Caltech, I was a Visiting Assistant Professor of History and Environmental Studies at Reed College in 2025-6.