Projects
Three landscapes, one long view.
RICE, CORE, and EDEN each begin with a specific landscape problem. Together they build a comparative research program around water, sediment, labor, institutions, and environmental change.
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RICE, South Carolina Lowcountry
The afterlives of tidal rice landscapes
Historic rice impoundments are at once engineered wetlands, landscapes of enslavement, ecological habitats, and contested inheritances. RICE examines how their hydrology and material history continue to shape conservation choices.
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CORE, South Carolina Lowlands
Environmental history beneath the floodplain
Abandoned channels can preserve long, comparatively undisturbed records of floods, vegetation, climate, and land use. CORE develops those records at the scales needed to connect environmental events with human histories.
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EDEN, Southern Mesopotamia
Rivers, tides, and the making of urban Mesopotamia
The Tigris, Euphrates, and Karun delta was a moving environmental frame for agriculture, settlement, and political life. EDEN reconstructs that frame and asks how its reorganization transformed early urban society.
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Water leaves records in more than sediment.
Each project reads physical processes alongside the social arrangements that made them consequential.
- Hydrology is studied as timing, duration, depth, frequency, and connection.
- Sediment is studied as both environmental archive and material moved by human systems.
- Infrastructure is interpreted through labor, maintenance, property, and governance.
- Present-day conservation is situated within histories of inequality, land use, and ecological change.