I'm a historian of archaeology, the field sciences, and heritage. I examine the relationship of those disciplines, their practices, and their material vestiges with the modern and contemporary worlds, particularly across the Middle East and into South Asia.

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I'm Lecturer in Heritage and Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Essex, and prior to that was a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of East Anglia. Among others, I have held fellowships from the Leverhulme Trust, the Gerda Henkel Stiftung, the Max Weber Stiftung, and the European Commission. I held postdoctoral positions at the German Historical Institute London, the M.S. Merian - R. Tagore International Centre of Advanced Studies in New Delhi, and the European University Institute in Florence, and was an Honorary Lecturer at the UCL Institute of Archaeoloy from 2017-19.

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I hold an AHRC-funded PhD (2014) in the History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Cambridge, and during my doctoral research held a fellowship at the American Universty in Cairo. I have earlier degrees in archaeology from the UCL Institute of Archaeology, and twice spent long summers at the Middlebury College language schools in Vermont (Arabic and German). I have worked in archaeology and heritage in the UK and Egypt, and have taught undergraduates and postgraduates at Cambridge, the European University Institute, UCL, and UEA.

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I was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in May 2023. I live in London.