I am a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of History at the University of California Santa Barbara, studying the social and environmental history of modern Central Asia. My dissertation project explores rural life in Soviet Kazakhstan, the Soviet efforts to “modernize” animal husbandry by turning the Kazakh steppe into a managed resource, and the role that humans and non-humans played in that process.
- Modern Central Asia
- Russian and Soviet History
- Environmental History
- Cohen-Tucker Dissertation Research Fellowship, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) (2025)
- Luce/ACLS Travel Grant in China Studies, American Council of Learned Socities (2024)
- Silas Palmer Fellowship, Hoover Institution, Stanford University (2024)
- Graduate Research Fellowship, Center for Middle East Studies (CMES), UC Santa Barbara (2022; 2023; 2025)
- Graduate Collaborative Award, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center (IHC), UC Santa Barbara (2025)
- History Associates Graduate Fellowship Award, UC Santa Barbara (2023)
- Ann Rappaport Prize for Best Seminar Paper, Department of History, UC Santa Barbara (2022)