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CURRICULUM VITAE 

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RESEARCH

Dissertation
“Land After Technology: Collective Memory and the New York City Water Supply”
Supervisor
Etienne Benson, Max Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Committee
Heidi Voskuhl, University of Pennsylvania
Ann Norton Greene, University of Pennsylvania
Stephanie Dick, Simon Fraser University

EDUCATION

University of Pennsylvania
2025 (Expected)
Ph.D., History and Sociology of Science2020
Doctoral Qualifying Fields
Environmental History with Etienne Benson
History of Technology with Heidi Voskuhl
Knowledge & Memory with Stephanie Dick
2019
M.A., History and Sociology of Science

Bryn Mawr College 2019
A.B., Creative Writing, Magna cum laude


PUBLICATIONS

2024“They Took the Best Farms: Remembering Water Supply Development in Rural New York”Agricultural History, 98, no. 2 (May 2024)
Winner of the Everett E. Edwards Prize from the Agricultural History Society
Under review“Disaster, Progress, and the Public Good: Living with Infrastructure Development” in “Public Environmental History in a World of Wounds” ForumUnder review for Environmental History, September 2024

FELLOWSHIPS

2024-2025Helfand Award Graduate FellowshipDepartment of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania
2023-2024
Critical Speaking Fellow
University of Pennsylvania

2023Mellon Applied History Initiative Summer WorkshopUniversity of Colorado, Boulder
2022-2023Mellon Humanities, Urbanism, and Design Doctoral FellowUniversity of Pennsylvania
2022-2023Wolf Humanities Center Doctoral FellowUniversity of Pennsylvania
2022-2023
2021-2022 Larry J. Hackman Research ResidencyNew York State Archives

GRANTS & AWARDS (SELECTED)

2024Edgar Fahs Smith Fellowship Fund of the Department of History and Sociology of Science 2024University of Pennsylvania, support for exhibition development2024School of Arts and Sciences Graduate Student GovernmentUniversity of Pennsylvania, graduate student travel award2023Stallybrass Prize in the History of Material Texts“So the memories need not fade”: Writing Continuity Across Rupture Workshop in the History of Material Texts, University of Pennsylvania2023Research, Dissemination, Public Outreach, and Exhibition GrantsAgricultural History Society, support for digitizing oral histories2022Helfand Fund of the Department of History and Sociology of ScienceUniversity of Pennsylvania, support for conference and research travel2021Summer Provost Fellowship for Interdisciplinary InnovationGraduate and Professional Students Association, University of Pennsylvania2021Teece Research AwardUniversity of Pennsylvania, support for archival research2020The Water Center at PennUniversity of Pennsylvania, Student Support Program award for graduate research2020Merkel Fund of the Department of History and Sociology of ScienceUniversity of Pennsylvania, support for research site visits2018Society for the History of Technology Travel Grant
Graduate student conference travel grant

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

2024 
“Fixing Streams: Emplaced Agricultural Knowledge in Twentieth-Century Rural New York”History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Merida, Mexico2024“So the memories need not face”: Writing Continuity Across Rupture in Rural New YorkAmerican Society for Environment History Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado2023
“Doing Ordinary Things in Ordinary Places: Emplaced Research for an Environmental Historian”American Society for Environmental History Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts2022
“The Best Land is Gone: Collective memory, farmland, and Water Supply Development”American History Society Annual Meeting, Stavanger, Norway
2022
“Laws on the Land: Regulatory Practices on New York City’s rural water supply lands, 1900-2000”American Society for Environmental History Annual Meeting, Eugene, Oregon
2021
“Working Land, Knowing Water: Agricultural Expertise Coordination in the NYC Watershed”Society for the Social Studies of Science Annual Meeting, Virtual2018
“Remembering Times Beach: Slow Disaster and the Limits of Memorialization” Society for the History of Technology Annual Meeting, St. Louis, Missouri


COLLABORATIONS

2024-2025Public Environmental Memory in a World of Wounds MapBucknell University2023-2024Place-Informed Writing WorkshopAgricultural History Society and American Society for Environmental History2023
Managing Scarcity WorkshopScience History Institute2022-2023
Writing in Place ColloquiumAgricultural History Society2021-2022
Writing in Place in Agricultural and Environmental HistoryAgricultural History Society


PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT

2024
Exhibit Curator for “With that Shadow Over Them: Constructing Catskill Reservoirs, Remembering Home”
Yager Museum, Hartwick College, Oneonta, New York
2024Invited talk: “The Last Homecoming: Remembering Reservoir Valleys”Yager Museum, Hartwick College, Oneonta, New York
2022Guest on The Rabbit Hole with Jim RauterWIOX Community Radio 91.32021Guest on The Farm Hour with Madalyn Warren and Erwin KarlWIOX Community Radio 91.3


SERVICE

2025-2027
Earth and Environmental Sciences Steering Committee
History of Science Society
2024-2025
2020-2022 Graduate Peer Mentor
Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
2023-2025Theories of History Discussion Group Convener
Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia2022-presentQueer@EH Convener LGBTQIA+ scholars’ coalition in environmental history and environmental humanities2023-2024Together with ASEH Fundraising Campaign
American Society for Environmental History2023Environmental History Week Steering Committee
American Society for Environmental History

TEACHING

2023-2024Instructor of Record: Nature and the City: Memory, Place, and Environment
Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania2023
Certificate in College and University TeachingCenter for Teaching and Learning, University of Pennsylvania
2018-2021
Teaching Assistant and Grader
Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania
Environment & Society; Technology & Society; Emergence of Modern Science; Comparative Medicine; Health & Societies


PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

2024-presentHistory of Science Society2021-presentAmerican Society for Environmental History2021-presentAgricultural History Society2021-presentSociety for the History of Technology

OTHER EDUCATION

2020
Oral History Training Institute Science History Institute
2015-2016
Coursework in wetlands ecology, conservation land management Masters of Environmental Studies Program, University of Pennsylvania


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2016-2017Manager of Communications and Digital StrategySchuylkill Center for Environmental Education, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2017Environmental Leadership Program FellowDelaware River Watershed Regional Fellowship for leadership development
2013-2016Public Relations ManagerSchuylkill Center for Environmental Education, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2011-2012Program AssistantOtsego 2000, Cooperstown, New York



Left: Bridge and low water in the Cannonsville Reservoir, near the former site of Rock Rift.