As a digital anthropologist I work at the intersection of culture, technology, and social change, with research and teaching experience across the U.S. and Europe. Through my consultancy, Ainthropology, I translate anthropological insight into applied AI/ML research to complement what quantitative data misses: real people in context, with their power relations, values, and everyday lives.

My current work focuses on two initiatives: the Andrew W. Marshall Foundation Oral History Digital Archive, where I’m developing methods to preserve and make oral history usable at scale with AI-enabled tools; and research on low-resource languages, focused on how to build language technologies that are locally trained, culturally grounded, and ethically sound.

I am the author of  Amongst Digital Humanists: An Ethnographic Study of Digital Knowledge Production (2015) and other Publications, and I earned my PhD at the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities, with graduate training in rhetoric, new media, and cultural anthropology.