Overview
I am a PhD Candidate in the Department of History. My dissertation, "Intoxicating Things: Global Material Culture in British and French south India, 1670 - 1757," examines the sociocultural and economic history of global imports in two port cities: British Madras and French Pondicherry. It employs a material culture methodology and draws on documents in French, Portuguese, English, Italian, and Tamil from archives across Europe, India, and the US. My project has been funded by the Fulbright-Hays DDRA program, the American Institute of Indian Studies, the Yale Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, the Duke Graduate School, and the Duke India Initiative. In 2024 I was a Fulbright-Hays Fellow at the University of Cambridge.
I hold an M.A. in Global, International & Comparative History from Georgetown University and a B.A. in History with minors in Fine Art and Italian from Skidmore College. Prior to coming to Duke, I worked in museums and in university academic affairs.
I hold an M.A. in Global, International & Comparative History from Georgetown University and a B.A. in History with minors in Fine Art and Italian from Skidmore College. Prior to coming to Duke, I worked in museums and in university academic affairs.