Biography

As an undergraduate at the University of Chicago, I studied History with a concentration in environmental history. Throughout my time at UChicago, I became interested in the Arctic as a region that has seen the most extreme warming from anthropogenic climate change, and increasing mineral and hydrocarbon extraction. At Cambridge’s Scott Polar Research Institute, I will continue my study of the Arctic with a specific concentration on the history of infrastructure in the Russian Arctic. I seek to explore how a wide variety of infrastructures were repurposed at the fall of the Soviet Union to build the modern Russian Arctic – and in turn, shaped the dynamics of the global Arctic in the age of climate change. I hope my work will contribute to conversations about the future of infrastructure in a climate-changed world and the dynamics of energy and extraction in the global Arctic. I am looking forward to learning from my professors and fellow students at the Scott Polar Research Institute who will enhance my understanding of the region, and its histories and cultures. I am also excited to join the Gates Cambridge community where I will be surrounded by people with boundless intellectual curiosity and a dedication to helping the world.

Previous Education

University of Chicago History