Bio

Zachary is a PhD candidate in History, Anthropology, & STS (HASTS) at MIT. His research concerns how people narrate, negotiate, and attempt to intervene in situations seemingly beyond their control. In his current project, Zachary investigates how agriculturalists and scientists project visions for the rural future in an area of South Italy facing cross-cutting agricultural exhaustion. This work has been supported by MIT’s John Lyons and Kenan Sahin Fellowships; MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives (MISTI-Italy); and the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. In addition to his work at MIT, Zachary is an affiliate of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University.