Bio

I am an Assistant Professor of the Practice and Director of Undergraduate Studies for Boston College’s new Human-Centered Engineering major. Trained as a historian of science and technology, my research and teaching focus on histories of science, technology, and engineering; the historical impact of sociotechnical systems on everyday life; women and gender in STEM fields; and histories of design and access.  

Before coming to Boston College originally as a Core Fellow in 2017, I received my PhD in 2015 from the Department of History of Science at Harvard University and lectured in the Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Program at Harvard. I became interested in the history of science as an undergraduate at Stanford University (B.A. ‘06, M.A. ‘07), where I spent two quarters studying marine biology at Hopkins Marine Station and in Australia. 

Currently, I am finishing a book about gender and the U.S. life sciences during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. My next book-length project is about radical feminist science and technology in the postwar US. I am also interested in engineering pedagogy, designing and delivering innovative first-year engineering courses that integrate technical and historical modes of thinking, and engineering for social justice.

My research has been supported by fellowships from the American Philosophical Society, the Smithsonian Institution, the Consortium for History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, the Huntington Library, the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, and the Social Science Research Council. 

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