Education

Ph.D., History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma (2019)

M.A. History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma (2015)

B.S. History, Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, Tennessee (2013)

Selected Publications 

“Colonial Self-Sufficiency” Bernard Carlson and Eric Conway, eds. Rethinking Electrical History: From Esoteric Knowledge to Invisible Infrastructure to Fragile Networks. (MIT Press, Expected Late 2021)

“Technology, Empire, and Environment,” Andrew Goss ed. Routledge History of Science and Empire, New York: Routledge University Press, (expected late 2021.)

Piers J. Hale, Elizabeth Neswald, and Nathan Kapoor eds., The Correspondence of John Tyndall, Volume 8, (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021).

“Wind and Power in the Anthropocene,” Essay Review, Technology and Culture 61, no. 2 (2020): 686-689.

"Who Has Seen the Wind": Imagining Wind Power for the Generation of Electricity in Victorian Britain,” Technology and Culture 60, no. 2 (2019): 467-493.

“New Zealand’s Dragon Lady of Paleontology,” Lady Science, April 2018, https://thenewinquiry.com/blog/new-zealands-dragon-lady-of-paleontology/

“Batteries Not Included,” Technology Stories, August 2017 http://www.technologystories.org/batteries-not-included/

“X-ing Site Y: Manhattan's Portrayal of Women at Los Alamos,” Lady Science, February 2015, https://www.ladyscience.com/xsitey/babmdyubex0ie4ks4nfbgl9e8zd482 

Selected Papers and Talks 

Clarkson University, David A. Walsh Seminar Series, “We Have No Niagara: Electrifying the Britain of the South, 1880-1914,” (February 26th, 2021) 

Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of Technology, “Just Steam: Geothermal Energy and Indigenous Resource Reclamation in the Anthropocene,” (Accepted for 2020 Conference and Postponed for 2021)

Annual Meeting of the Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies of the Western United States, “Another World is Possible: The Colonization and Decolonization of New Zealand’s Grid,” (November 7-10, 2019)

Annual Meeting of the Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies of the Western United States, ““The Dam at the World’s End: Reimagining Imperialism in New Zealand through the Lake Coleridge Dam,” (November 8-10, 2018)

Columbia History of Science Group, “Grounding Empire: The Electrification of Mining in Late-Nineteenth Century New Zealand” (March 2-3, 2018)

Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of Technology, "Left Far Behind”: The Electrification of Reefton as a Model for Imperial Energy Transitions," (October 26-29, 2017)

Annual Meeting of the History of Science Society, “Electrical Metamorphosis: Electricity and the Victorian Normate in The Coming Race” (November 4-6, 2016)

Columbia History of Science Group, "The Coal Question: How Coal Depletion Affected Electrical Energy Generation" (March 11-12, 2016)

Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of Technology, "Potential Energy: Wind Power for Electrical Energy Generation in Late-Nineteenth Century Great Britain, 1870–1900" (October 8-11, 2015)

Midwest Junto for the History of Science, “Wind Amidst the Flame: Rethinking Discussions About Electrical Energy Generation in Late-Nineteenth Century Great Britain” (April 17-19, 2015) 

Professional Affiliations 

History of Science Society

Environmental History Network, New Zealand

Society for the History of Technology

Columbia History of Science Group

Midwest Junto for the History of Science

Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies of the Western United States