Doctoral Candidate

Entered 2017

Cohen 331
By appointment

Curriculum Vitæ

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Education

A.B. Bryn Mawr

M.A. History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania, 2019

About Me

I am a PhD candidate in the History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania. My work explores the intersections of collective memory and watershed management and development. My dissertation, “Land After Technology” examines how collective memories and knowledge practices in the Catskill Mountains of New York have addressed, resisted, and incorporated the history of New York City’s watershed development in the twentieth century.

I approach themes including tacit knowledge, belonging and identity, place, resource development, state regulation through the lens of collective memory. In this context, I put together conceptions of heritage, territorial belonging, and loss with environmental and technological development in the United States.

I am a 2023-2024 Critical Speaking Fellow with the Communication Within the Curriculum program at the University of Pennsylvania.

I am also a book and paper artist, working in letterpress, book arts, cut paper, and watercolor engage with place knowledge and narrative. I served on the volunteer board of The Soapbox, a West Philadelphia-based printmaking nonprofit, from 2014 to 2023.

 

 

 

 

Research Interests

Environmental history, knowledge production, history of technology, collective memory, STS, belonging and displacement, gender

Courses Taught

Instructor:
STSC 1765: Nature and the City, Fall 2023
 
Teaching Assistant:
HSOC/STSC 001: Emergence of Modern Science, Fall 2018
HSOC 145: Comparative Medicine, Spring 2019
STSC 168: Environment and Society, Fall 2019
Teaching Assistant: HSOC 010: Global Health Perspectives, Spring 2020
Teaching Assistant: HSOC/STSC 001: Emergence of Modern Science, Fall 2020

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