I am an environmental historian of North America and South Asia. Broadly, my research—whether in India or North America—is premised on a central question: what is nature? And how does something become nature? Thus, I am interested in how humans (and non-humans) fashion our familiarities, especially through the lens of infrastructure creation. 

I research infrastructure creation/imagination, nature, and knowledge transfers in the 19th and 20th centuries in as well as between North America and South Asia.

My current monograph Islands in the Straits draws upon my award-winning doctoral work on the Detroit River and the North American Great Lakes. I have been published in academic journals like Water History as well as public-facing avenues.

As a survivor of domestic abuse and as a single parent, my scholarship is driven by a commitment to social/ecological justice and equity.

I am currently an Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Grand Valley State University in Allendale MI.