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

Ph.D., History and Sociology of Science

2020

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

2010

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

2024-2025

Helfand Award Graduate FellowshipDepartment of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania

2023-2024

Critical Speaking Fellow

University of Pennsylvania

2023

Mellon Applied History Initiative Summer WorkshopUniversity of Colorado, Boulder

2022-2023

Mellon Humanities, Urbanism, and Design Doctoral FellowUniversity of Pennsylvania

2022-2023

Wolf Humanities Center Doctoral FellowUniversity of Pennsylvania

2022-2023
2021-2022

Larry J. Hackman Research ResidencyNew York State Archives

GRANTS & AWARDS (SELECTED)

2024

Edgar Fahs Smith Fellowship Fund of the Department of History and Sociology of Science 2024University of Pennsylvania, support for exhibition development

2024

School of Arts and Sciences Graduate Student GovernmentUniversity of Pennsylvania, graduate student travel award

2023

Stallybrass 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 Pennsylvania

2023

Research, Dissemination, Public Outreach, and Exhibition GrantsAgricultural History Society, support for digitizing oral histories

2022

Helfand Fund of the Department of History and Sociology of ScienceUniversity of Pennsylvania, support for conference and research travel

2021

Summer Provost Fellowship for Interdisciplinary InnovationGraduate and Professional Students Association, University of Pennsylvania

2021

Teece Research AwardUniversity of Pennsylvania, support for archival research

2020

The Water Center at PennUniversity of Pennsylvania, Student Support Program award for graduate research

2020

Merkel Fund of the Department of History and Sociology of ScienceUniversity of Pennsylvania, support for research site visits

2018

Society for the History of Technology Travel Grant
Graduate student conference travel grant

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

2025

“Environmental Trauma: Place, Affect, and Healing in Public Environmental History” Roundtable American Society for Environmental History Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

2024

“Fixing Streams: Emplaced Agricultural Knowledge in Twentieth-Century Rural New York”History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Merida, Mexico

2024

“So the memories need not face”: Writing Continuity Across Rupture in Rural New YorkAmerican Society for Environment History Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado

2023

“Doing Ordinary Things in Ordinary Places: Emplaced Research for an Environmental Historian”American Society for Environmental History Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts

2022

“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, Virtual

2018

“Remembering Times Beach: Slow Disaster and the Limits of Memorialization” Society for the History of Technology Annual Meeting, St. Louis, Missouri

COLLABORATIONS

2024-2025

Public Environmental Memory in a World of Wounds Bucknell University

2023-2024

Place-Informed Writing WorkshopAgricultural History Society and American Society for Environmental History

2023

Managing Scarcity WorkshopScience History Institute

2022-2023

Writing in Place ColloquiumAgricultural History Society

2021-2022

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

2024

Invited talk: “The Last Homecoming: Remembering Reservoir Valleys” Yager Museum, Hartwick College, Oneonta, New York

2022

Guest on The Rabbit Hole with Jim RauterWIOX Community Radio 91.3

2021

Guest on The Farm Hour with Madalyn Warren and Erwin KarlWIOX Community Radio 91.3

SERVICE

2025-present

Women’s Caucus Oral History Project Chair
History of Science Society

2025-2027

Earth and Environmental Sciences Steering Committee (2025 Chair)
History of Science Society

2020-2022, 2024-2025

Graduate Peer Mentor
Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

2023-2025

Theories of History Discussion Group Convener
Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

2022-present

Queer@EH Convener LGBTQIA+ scholars’ coalition in environmental history and environmental humanities

2023-2024

Together with ASEH Fundraising Campaign
American Society for Environmental History

2023

Environmental History Week Steering Committee
American Society for Environmental History

TEACHING

2023-2024

Instructor of Record: Nature and the City: Memory, Place, and Environment
Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania

2023

Certificate in College and University TeachingCenter for Teaching and Learning, University of Pennsylvania

2018-2021, 2025

Teaching Assistant and Grader

Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania
Environment & Society; Technology & Society; Emergence of Modern Science; Global Health; Comparative Medicine; Health & Societies

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

2024-present

History of Science Society

2021-present

American Society for Environmental History

2021-present

Agricultural History Society

2021-present

Society 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

2016-2017

Manager of Communications and Digital StrategySchuylkill Center for Environmental Education, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

2017

Environmental Leadership Program FellowDelaware River Watershed Regional Fellowship for leadership development

2013-2016

Public Relations ManagerSchuylkill Center for Environmental Education, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

2011-2012

Program AssistantOtsego 2000, Cooperstown, New York

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