Bio

Zachary is a PhD candidate in History, Anthropology, & Science, Technology and Society (HASTS) at MIT. He is an anthropologist of agriculture and rural life in South Italy. At the broadest level, Zachary researches how people experience, navigate, and intervene in ecological situations beyond their direct control. In his current project, he investigates how visions for the future of predominantly agricultural communities in South Italy are complicated by a limited understanding of inequality in the rural past. This work has been supported by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research; the Martin Family Society of Fellows for Sustainability; and the MIT Center for International Studies, among others. For his commitment to and success in undergraduate education, Zachary received the Benjamin Siegel Teaching Prize from the MIT STS Program in autumn 2025. He is also a research affiliate of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University.