She received her Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University (2012), and completed an M.Litt. in Environmental History at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland (2007) and an A.B. in History and Literature at Harvard College (2006). She is the author of Memory Lands: King Philip’s War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast, published by Yale University Press (2018) in the Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity. Her writing on Indigenous histories, memories, placemaking, and material culture has appeared in The Journal of American History, The William and Mary Quarterly, Early American Studies, and other publications.