I work across the fields of archaeology, material culture, critical museum and heritage studies, and anti-colonialism. I joined Sussex as Lecturer in Material Culture in 2024; prior to this I was Research and Engagement Fellow at the University of Cambridge Museums.

I studied archaeology at the University of Durham and the University of Cambridge. I primarily work on the South Asian past, ranging from the fourth to second millennium BC Indus Civilisation, to 20th-century museum collections.

My archaeological research focuses on craft production, early urbanism, material culture and identity in the Bronze Age. I work on the Indus Civilisation (3200 - 1600 BC) in India and Pakistan, but I am also interested in interactions between Afro-Asian ancient complex societies. As a member of the Land, Water, and Settlement project, and the TwoRains project, I took part in settlement and landscape surveys, as well as excavations at numerous Indus Civilisation village sites in northwest India. My PhD thesis explored how rural populations responded to the development of larger urban centres, and how this was reflected in ceramic material culture. I used ceramic forms, technologies, and iconography to examine how local, regional and broader 'Indus Civilisation' identities may have been materialised.


My critical museum and heritage studies work focuses on decolonial practice. In 2016 I worked at the University of Cambridge Museums (UCM), where my research was key in developing the 2017 India Unboxed Festival. From 2018 - 2019, along with Akshyeta Suryanarayan and Ananya Mishra, I ran the Untold Histories museum tours at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (MAA). In 2019 we won a University of Cambridge Outstanding Student Contribution to Education Award. In 2020, I led the RePresent Project, which began with a community-led gallery relabelling project at MAA.

From 2021 - 2023 I was postdoctoral Research and Engagement Fellow at the UCM, working as part of a broader project to investigate the legacies of empire and enslavement in the university museum collections. This project culminated in the landmark exhibition Black Atlantic: Power, People, Resistance at the Fitzwilliam Museum in 2023 - 2024. From 2021 - 2022 I was lead convenor on the interdisciplinary research network Slavery and Freedom: Material and Visual Histories, hosted by the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Cambridge.

In 2020 I became a founding member of the European Society of Black and Allied Archaeologists. We collectively campaign for an anti-racist anti-colonial archaeology. From 2022 - 2024 I was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Pembroke College, University of Cambridge. In 2023 I was elected to the Board of Trustees of the Council for British Archaeology. In 2025, I joined the Editorial Board of the Journal of Museum Ethnography as Book Reviews Editor.

I have been invited to speak by organisations that include the Museums Association, the Cambridge Heritage Research Centre, and the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists. I have lectured on undergraduate and postgraduate degrees at the University of Cambridge, the University of Essex, and Washington University in St Louis.

My research has been featured in media outlets, including the Washington Post, and the BBC, where in 2023 I was a guest on the history and comedy podcast You're Dead to Me. I've written for varied publications and platforms, including Crafts magazine and Media Diversified.