I’m a Research Scientist and Lecturer in the Department of Geography, where I study the intersection of agricultural futures and the socio-environmental experiences of those enacting new farming technologies and those harmed by them. My ethnographic research focuses on how claims of scientific objectivity around emerging agricultural technologies are differently deployed by farmers, corporations, bureaucrats, politicians, scientists, and social movement actors to advance political agendas. My long-term project in Argentina investigates what are sometimes called “unintended consequences” of GM soybean monocropping, though these are more often unimagined rather than completely unimaginable. My newer project with Geography Prof. Susanne Freidberg explores how regenerative farming movements are promoted and taken up across the northeastern United States.

I began at Dartmouth as a postdoctoral fellow for the interdisciplinary graduate program on Ecology, Evolution, Environment and Society before being awarded an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship through the program on Science and Technology Studies. Before coming to Dartmouth, I was a Research Fellow at Harvard University’s Program on Science, Technology, and Society while completing my PhD in Sociocultural Anthropology at the University of New Mexico. I also hold a Master’s in Global Policy Studies from the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin and a BA from Smith College. I currently live in Vermont with my husband, two kids, and our (big) yellow lab Mango Pongo.