I am currently a Haas Postdoctoral Fellow at the
Science History Institute. Before joining the Institute, I was a program coordinator and postdoctoral fellow in residence at the
Consortium for
the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine and the 2018-2019
AHA Fellow in Aerospace History.
From 2016 to 2018 I was an A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the
Institute for Research in
the Humanities at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison. At UW, I held joint appointments
at the
Department of History and the
Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies,
and I remain affiliated with the
Center for Culture, History, and Environment and the
Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies. I earned a bachelors degree in English and astronomy from
Barnard College, and a PhD from the Department of History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania. My research has been
supported by fellowships from NASA, the Society for the History of Technology, the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, the
Penn Humanities Forum, and the Consortium for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine. I am a Research Associate in the Department
of Space History at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum and an Adjunct Research Associate at the RAND Corporation.
I spend what time remains writing plays, container gardening, playing mandolin (poorly), and serving as an
urban astronomy and
Girls Rock Camp educator.