I’m a linguistic anthropologist and the McKennan Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at Dartmouth College.

My research and teaching center on multimodal interaction, youth language and culture, and political participation.

I’m working on a book based on my dissertation and postdoc research:

Political Signs: Language and Student Movements in Chile is an ethnography of youth political practice. It explores student socialization into democratic participation through multimodal signs—spoken, embodied, and visual—in post-authoritarian Chile. Grounded in ethnographic, linguistic, and archival research, Political Signs traces how youth connect personal experiences to larger sociopolitical currents through everyday interactions, movements, and historical memory, offering nuanced insight into how democracy is made meaningful in and through language.