Stanford

Departmental affiliations

Environmental Social Sciences and Oceans, Doerr School of Sustainability

• Associate professor, 2021–present

Anthropology, School of Humanities and Sciences

• Associate Professor, 2020–present
• Assistant Professor, 2012–2020

Affiliations with research institutes & centers

Woods Institute for the Environment

• Senior Fellow, 2021–present
• Fellow, 2013–2021
• Faculty participant, Leading Interdisciplinary Collaborations (LInC) Program, 2025
• PI: Decolonizing Governance of Ocean Resources in the Chagos Archipelago, 2024
• Faculty collaborator: Safeguarding Ocean Ecosystems and Food Security, 2020

Center for Innovation in Global Health

• Faculty fellow, 2015–present
• Faculty collaborator on research award for Investigating Animal-Sourced Food as a Global Risk for Urban Rift Valley Fever Disease Spread and Emergence, 2021
• Faculty lead, Malaria Working Group, 2017–18
• Seed grant, Integrating Climatic, Genomic and Archeo-historic Data: A Proof-of-concept Study To Improve Malaria ‘Early-Warning’ Predictive Models, 2016
• Fellow, 2014–15
• Faculty collaborator, Program in Disease Ecology, Health, and the Environment

Center for African Studies

• Advisory Board Member, 2023–present
• Interim director, Spring 2023
• Faculty fellow, 2017–present

Institute for Advancing Just Societies

• Faculty fellow, 2025–present

Stanford Center on Culture and Sustainability

• Center lead, 2025–present
• Seetah Lab, Environmental Archaeology Lab
  • Lab Director, 2012–present
• Stanford Archaeology Center
  • Faculty affiliate, 2012–present

Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI)

• Faculty affiliate, 2019–present
• Seminar: AI, Archaeology, and Archives: How Data Science Is Helping to Reveal Past Epidemics, 2023
• Seed grant: Predicting Malaria Outbreaks: AI to Learn, Classify, and Predict across Diverse Paleo-Demographic, Climatic, and Genomic Data, 2019
• Reviewer for seed grants, 2014–15

Stanford Robotics Center

• Faculty affiliate, 2024–present

Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies

• Faculty Affiliate, The Europe Center

Center for Ocean Solutions

• Collaborative Research Project: Harnessing Large-Scale Marine Protection for Food Security, Cultural Heritage and Biodiversity Conservation

Institute for Research in the Social Sciences

• Director, The Omics Initiative, 2021–24
  • Organizer, site visit to Mauritius for IRiSS leadership
• Seed grant: Integrating Archaeo-Historic, Climatic, and Genomic Data for Comparative Malaria Modeling, 2019
• Faculty fellow, 2018
  • Project: Improving Malaria 'Early Warning' Predictive Models: A Proof-of-Concept Using Archaeo-Historic and Climate Data
• Seed grant: Improving Malaria 'Early Warning' Predictive Models: A Proof-of-Concept Using Archaeo-Historic and Climate Data, 2016
• Seed grant: Religion and Social Life in Mauritius: The Long Durée Perspective, 2013

Resident Fellow

• Norcliffe/Adelfa, 2021–present

Contributions to interdisciplinary programs

Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources, Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

• Sykes Family Faculty Director, 2023–present
• Faculty affiliate

Sustainability Science and Practice Master’s Program

• Advisory Committee member, 2023–present

Fellowships

• Stanford Impact Labs Design Fellowship (2023–24)