I am an ethnographer of science, technology, and language, feminist STS scholar, and assistant professor in the Anthropology Department at Princeton University, where I teach courses on surveillance, the anthropology of AI, and linguistic anthropology. I am a faculty affiliate of the History of Science Program, the Program in Cognitive Science, the Center for Health and Wellbeing, Princeton Language + Intelligence (PLI) and Natural and Artificial Minds.

I study the sensory politics and technopolitics of American mental healthcare in an era in which artificial intelligence (AI) is called upon to manage increasingly broad arenas of human life. My research projects trace the auditory and interpretive practices and moral economies of discernment that underpin machine listening technologies, especially those designed to evaluate and track people experiencing mental distress.

I received my PhD in History, Anthropology, Science, Technology and Society (HASTS) at MIT and my MA in Anthropology at Brandeis University. Previously, I was a postdoctoral associate in the Anthropology Department at MIT, the associate director and co-founder of the Language and Technology Lab, and a Weatherhead Fellow at the School for Advanced Research.