Archives are not neutral. They were assembled by people with priorities — ledgers kept by merchants, manifests filed by ports, baptismal records bound by parishes — and the people they overlooked tend to stay overlooked unless you read against the grain. My work is about reading against the grain.

I study the movement of people, goods, and ideas across the Atlantic, with a focus on the lives that the official record reduced to a number in a column. By pairing close archival reading with computational mapping, I reconstruct networks and journeys that no single document contains — and write history that gives those lives their weight back.