Graduate Directory

Summary of Expertise

I am a scholar and artist with emerging expertise in science and technology studies (STS), especially as it relates to communication, cultural studies, media studies, and the history of science. 

Research Interests

I'm interested in the relationship between knowledge and communication—whether on TV, in medical diagnostic manuals, or through embodied material practices in and beyond what is conventionally understood as science and art. Experimental and speculative practices hold my attention lately as forms of self-reflexivity that navigate the many competing priorities of our world, such as individual and collective wellbeing, universal and particular forms of knowledge, etc. One case study I consider promising is documentary photography and the artist photobook monograph, a genre of creative and communicative practice that resonates with work in the humanities relating to alternative theorizations of history, time, speculative temporalities, and cultural narrative.

Biography, Education and Training

I grew up outside Minneapolis, Minnesota. I hold an undergraduate degree in anthropology and environmental studies (St. Olaf College, 2010) and a master’s degree in science, technology, and society (University College London, 2016). For many years I've worked outside of academia: producing science documentary TV programs for the BBC and PBS/WGBH, teaching English in Spain, studying climate science in arctic Siberia, and building cabinets in a carpentry shop. Out of this variegated blend of experiences, I’ve developed an intellectual practice that includes both traditional scholarship and generative art, including photography, printmaking, book arts, and sculpture. 

Honors, Awards and Grants

Dean’s Commendation, University College London, 2016

First-Place Dissertation Prize, MSc in Science, Technology, and Society, University College London, 2016

Top-of-Class Prize, University College London, MSc in Science, Technology, and Society, 2016

Selected Publications

"Performing ‘the authoritative account’: How the BBC’s Horizon produces epistemic authority." Social Studies of Science. Volume 51, Issue 3, 2020.