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Education
2019 PhD, History, Rutgers University
2011 MA, History, The University of Alabama
2005 BA, English, The University of Alabama, summa cum laude
Academic Appointments
2022-23 David Bartholomae Postdoctoral Fellow, Writing Program, Rutgers University
2019–22 Perkins-Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow, Society of Fellows, Princeton, University
2019–22 Lecturer, Department of History, Princeton University
Selected Publications
For a complete list of my publications, including public-facing scholarship, visit the publications page.
Book Manuscript
Reading Practice: The Pursuit of Natural Knowledge from Manuscript to Print (under advanced contract with the University of Chicago Press, now under review)
Peer-Reviewed Articles
“The ‘Sururgia’ of Nicholas Neesbett: Writing Medical Authority in Later Medieval England,” Social History of Medicine, 35, no. 1 (February 2022): 144–169. Access the article here.
“‘Here is a good boke to lerne’: Practical books, the coming of the press, and the search for knowledge, ca. 1400–1560,” Journal of British Studies 58, no. 2 (April 2019): 259–288. Access the article here.
Editions and Translations
Pamela Smith et al., eds., Secrets of Craft and Nature in Renaissance France: A Digital Critical Edition and English Translation of Bibliothèque nationale de France MS Fr. 640, https://edition640.makingandknowing.org, launched February 6, 2020.
Invited Essays
“How to Cure a Horse, or, the Difference Between the Knowledge of Experience and the Experience of Knowledge,” Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences 52, no. 4 (2022): 547–552. Access the essay here.
Works in Progress
Journal Forum Co-editor (with Hannah Frydman, University of Washington) of a prospective forum of articles on “Reproductive Rights Beyond Roe” for the journal Gender & History
Digital Editions (under review) “Old Books, New Knowledge?” an initiative to publish digital critical editions of later medieval medical manuscripts owned and annotated by early modern readers; part of a larger grant proposal, “Crafting an Open Source Digital Publication Tool for the History of Science,” submitted in collaboration with Pamela Smith (Columbia University) to the National Science Foundation
Fellowships, Grants, and Awards
External
2022 Co-collaborator on EditionCrafter, National Science Foundation Grant # 2218218
2020 Honorable Mention, Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography Annual Essay Prize
2018 Dissertation Completion Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies
2018 Grant-in-aid, Folger Shakespeare Library, Faculty Weekend Seminar
2017 Schallek Award, The Medieval Academy of America and the Richard III Society
2016 Grant-in-aid, Folger Shakespeare Library, Researching the Archive Seminar
2015 Director’s Scholarship, Rare Book School, The University of Virginia
Princeton
2020 ‘New Project in the Humanities’ David A. Gardner ’69 Magic Project grant
2020 Research Grant, University Committee on Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Rutgers
2018 Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellowship, School of Arts & Sciences (Declined)
2017 Special Study Award for Digital Humanities, Graduate School
2016 Mellon Summer Dissertation Research Grant, School of Arts & Sciences
2016 Rutgers Teaching Assistant Professional Development Fund Research Grants
The University of Alabama
2012 Albert Burton Moore Memorial Award for Outstanding Graduate Work in History
2005 Phi Beta Kappa
Courses Taught
Visit the syllabi page for course descriptions and sample syllabi.
Rutgers University (as Instructor of Record)
Basic Composition
Princeton University (as Instructor of Record)
A History of Words: Technologies of Communication from Cuneiform to Coding
Fertile Bodies: Reproduction from Antiquity to the Enlightenment
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Western Culture I
Rutgers University (as Teaching Fellow)
The Crusades
European Development I
The University of Alabama (as Teaching Assistant)
Western Civilization since 1648
American Civilization to 1865
Western Civilization to 1648
American Civilization since 1865