Interdisciplinary Researcher | Curator | Photographer

Education
Master of Philosophy | Department of History of Art | University of Cambridge
Bachelor of Science | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and History of Art | Yale University 

Professional Experience
Dumbarton Oaks | Harvard University
Sterling Memorial Library | Yale University
The American Wing | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Department of Ornithology and Vertebrate Zoology | Yale Peabody Museum
| National Science Foundation
| Tall Timbers Research Station and Herbarium 

Publications
Margaret Armstrong in Hibernia: Disappearance of the Longleaf Pine Ecosystem
Perspectives: The Metropolitan Museum of Art | 2026
Tracing the Rosebud Orchid: Botanical Illustration and Ecological Awareness
Yale University Library | 2026
Mondays at the Beinecke: Navigating Curatorial Research in Collections
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library | 2026
Guthikonda et al., Characterization of belowground plant biomass in a southeastern U.S. upland pine savanna
Plant Ecology | 2026
Martin Johnson Heade and the Anthropocene
Yale University Library | 2026

In progress:
Tropical Uplands: A Connoisseurial Analysis
Yale University Art Gallery | 2025
| independent research on ecological significance Tropical Uplands informed 2025 Andrew Carnduff Ritchie Lecture, A Landscape Examined: Jamaica’s Role in the Making of Empire
Louis C. Tiffany Design Drawings
The Metropolitan Museum of Art | 2027
| contributor

Exhibitions
Tracing the Rosebud Orchid 
April 2026 - October 2026 | Yale University Sterling Memorial Library
| featuring 80+ works across the Yale University Collections and beyond: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale Center for British Art, American Philosophical Society, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, British Museum, Natural History Museum, Yale Peabody Museum
Reclaiming Roots
May 2025 | Afro-American Cultural Center, Yale University
| exhibition about south asian diaspora, exhibiting 15 works by international artists including Sunil Gupta, Siona Benjamin, Bhasha Chakrabarti, Hangama Amiri, and in collaboration with New Haven Public Schools,  programming with curator and creative director Indira Abhiskaroon

Fellowships
Paul Mellon Fellow | University of Cambridge
Plant Humanities Summer Fellowship | Dumbarton Oaks
Adrienne Arsht Curatorial Research | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Yale Summer Environmental Fellowship | Yale Department of Environmental Science
Exhibit Curator Fellowship | Yale University Library

Awards
Vincent D. Andrus Memorial Prize