Education
University of Chicago 2019 – 2025
PhD, Committee on the Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science
MS, Geophysical Sciences
University of Virginia 2015 – 2019
BA, Echols Interdisciplinary Major
Positions
Lecturer, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley 2025-2025
Publications
“The Sale of the Mantellian Museum: Commercial Paleontology and Imperial Identity,” article in submission for Earth Sciences History
“Deep Time and State Power: Paleontology and the Construction of Soviet Scientific Identity,” manuscript in review for British Journal for the History of Science
Presentations
“Commercial Paleontology and the Politics of Geoheritage,” GSA Connects. San Antonio, October 2025.
“The Sale of the Mantellian Museum,” INHIGEO. October 2025. “Paleontology, Inc.: “The postwar growth of commercial paleontology,” International Congress of History of Science and Technology. Dunedin, July 2025.
“Bolshevik Paleontology: Deep Past, Far Future,” New Directions Symposium. Charlottesville, April 2025.
“The Potential and Pitfalls of Commercial Paleontology For Outreach in the Geosciences”, GSA 2025 Joint Northeastern/North-Central Section Meeting. Erie, March 2025.
“Revolutionary Paleontology,” PopPalaeo Working Group. March 2024.
Teaching
University of California, Berkeley
History of the Soviet Union
Who Owns The Past?
University of Chicago
Science and Literature in Twentieth Century Russia