Biography

I grew up in San Francisco, California, and completed a B.A. in Comparative Literature & Society and Mathematics at Columbia University. I’m broadly interested in the relationship between technical knowledge and social order, particularly in the histories of eugenics and mathematics. My work at Columbia has focused on transnational collaboration in early-twentieth-century eugenics, interrogating how eugenicists in America collaborated with their European counterparts across national boundaries and political disagreements. As a Gates Cambridge scholar, I will continue to study histories of eugenics and concepts of race, transnational scientific collaboration, and mathematics and quantification. Throughout, I seek to explore what the recent past can teach us about the politics of today as eugenic thought, international right wing movements, and (frequently inscrutable) mathematical reasoning continue to grow in political relevance. As someone with interests across the humanities, the social sciences, and STEM, I am thrilled to join a community of interdisciplinary scholars dedicated to bridging the academy and the public sphere.

Previous Education

Columbia University Comparative Literature, Math 2024