I am a historian of technology with expertise in visual instruments, military ways of seeing, trans-imperial circulation and histories of disaster.

In 2021, I joined the University of Toronto as Assistant Professor at the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations and the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology. Previously, I received a Ph.D. in History from Columbia University in 2018 and then worked as a Mellon Postdoctoral Scholar at the Stanford Humanities Center and a lecturer in the Department of History at the same institution.

Broadly, my research concerns late imperial modes of governance and knowledge production as grounded in the materiality of technological failure, geo-epistemologies, and military labor regimes. Using a new range of archival sources in Arabic, Ottoman Turkish, Armenian, Hebrew, French and German, my first monograph, Deadly Triangulations: Vision and the Instruments of Empire (1828–1948) centers on the proliferation of maps, atlases, and aerial photographs during the Eastern Question and the transition from empire to nation-states in the Middle East. 

Outside my individual research, I enjoy collaborating with creative professionals and engineers towards generating cutting-edge research platforms that engage with the past as much as contemporary questions and concerns such as current technologies of war, visual technological heritage, and forgotten histories of chemistry.