I am a PhD student in Latin American History at Harvard University, where I focus on texts, artifacts, and scientific practices from the pre-Columbian Americas (especially the Andes) and the history of their worldwide transmission, reception, and study.

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 quipus, the knotted-string devices that fulfilled the functions of writing in the prehispanic Andes. I am also working to catalog the remaining quipus in collections around the world. Though numerical quipu conventions were deciphered about a century ago, their narrative properties remain little-known.

I am a member of the Open Khipu Repository’s Advisory Board, which aims to nurture principles of inclusiveness, transparency, and accountability in quipu research.