I am a PhD student in Latin American History at Harvard University. In 2022, I completed an MPhil as a Marshall Scholar in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. In 2019, I graduated from Harvard College with a BA in Applied Mathematics.
Since 2016, I have studied khipus, the knotted-string devices that fulfilled the functions of writing in the prehispanic Andes. I am also working to catalog the remaining khipus in museums and private collections around the world. Though numerical khipu conventions were deciphered about a century ago, their narrative properties remain little-known.
I am a member of the Open Khipu Repository’s recently formed Advisory Board, which aims to nurture principles of inclusiveness, transparency, and accountability in khipu research.