I am a historian of physics, gender, and science education in the United States. My book manuscript, A New History of American Women in Physics, seeks to change the way we understand what it means to be a physicist by telling the history of physics exclusively from women’s perspectives. It is currently under contract with the University of Pittsburgh Press.
Other research projects have included the history of the term “cookbook laboratory” in science education, the history of physics in home economics, and following the lives of individual pre-WWII women in physics.
In 2020 I earned my Ph.D. in the History of Science and Technology from Johns Hopkins University. Prior to that I earned my Bachelor’s in Physics at Harvard University in 2013 and my Master’s in the History of Science at the University of Chicago in 2014. I also previously worked as the Assistant Public Historian at the Center for History of Physics at the American Institute of Physics and as an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Texas Arlington.
Currently I am a postdoc in the Department of Science Education at the University of Copenhagen where I study the networks of historical women in physics with Adrienne Traxler. I have been active in the History of Science Society, the American Association of Physics Teachers, and the American Physical Society.
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