I am a science studies scholar and historian of medicine, science, and environment in modern Latin America—especially Amazônia.

Currently, I am an Assistant Professor of History at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

My first book project, The Psychedelic Century, traces how sacred plants and their knowledge practitioners from the northwestern Amazon transformed (global) “psychedelic” medicine and science, spanning the nineteenth century to the present day.

My next project, tentatively titled Rabid Environments, examines the various surveillance technologies that life scientists and public health officials used to track wild-born diseases and their vectors as well as the human populations they sought to protect from such illnesses in twentieth-century Brazil.

More broadly, my research and teaching interests include global histories of medicine, science, and environment, feminist and Indigenous science studies, Latin American history, cultural anthropology, and digital humanities.

I earned my PhD in the History + Sociology of Science from the University of Pennsylvania, along with a graduate certificate in Latin American and Latinx Studies. I hold a MA in the History of Medicine from McGill University and a BA (Honours) in History + Psychology from McMaster University.

I grew up in the suburbs north of Toronto, on the ancestral lands of the Wendat, Haudenosaunee, and Anishnaabe peoples, and spent part of my early life along the Kootenay Rockies of interior British Columbia.