Tamara Fernando is an incoming assistant professor at Stony Brook University, New York, and a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Historical Research, London. Her research focuses on the intersection of labor, science, and the environment in the area of the Indian Ocean at the turn of the twentieth century. Her archival work focuses on a close examination of the pearl trade. Rather than reconstructing a commodity history of pearls, she concerns herself with how pearl divers' labor and the submarine oyster reef allow us access to historic oceans. She is interested in submarine histories, histories below the water line, animal histories, and blending methods from the environmental humanities to find out how this might affect labor and the history of science.