Brown University

PhD - History

August 2016 - May 2022

I am a recent PhD graduate from the history program at Brown University. While there, I studied the history of science in colonial New England as well as its connections to the English Atlantic. I focused on themes of family, space, and the social in the context of the “saltbox scientist” Gershom Bulkeley an alchemist and physician who lived in central Connecticut during the late seventeenth century. I also worked as a fellow for the Mellon-funded Sensory Monastery project at Brown, and this most recent spring I taught my own course, “History of the Laboratory.”

University of Chicago

MA - Social Sciences

August 2014-December 2015

I focused on historical research for my master's degree. My thesis work centered on the history of early science and the impact of the changing views of the self on the appeal of the alchemist and early experimentalist George Starkey. I also gained valuable experience in my coursework which included training in academic writing.

Indiana University

BA - History, Anthropology, German, Western European Studies minor

August 2009-August 2013

I studied at Indiana University, Bloomington from the fall of 2009 to the summer of 2013. During my time at the university I focused on early modern European history, sociocultural and biological anthropology, and the German language. I graduated with high distinction after finishing my degree with a month-long summer study abroad history course in Paris. I also made the dean's list every semester, obtained the Hutton Honors College Notation, and graduated a Founder's Scholar with high honors (magna cum laude).