Scholarship
Chapters
“Stacks, ‘Pacs,’ and User Hacks: A Handheld History of Personal Computing,” in The Whipple Museum of the History of Science: Objects and Investigations, to Celebrate the 75th Anniversary of R. S. Whipple’s Gift to the University of Cambridge, eds. Joshua Nall, Liba Taub, and Frances Willmoth (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019), 291-312.
Reviews
The Economization of Life, by Michelle Murphy. Journal for the History of Biology 51, no. 3 (July 2018): 613-615.
“Toward an Epistemic History of Political Things: Cartography, Science, and States,” review of books by Surekha Davies, Jason D. Hansen, William Rankin, and Jess Bier. Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences 48, no. 3 (June 2018), 380-389.
Life on Ice: A History of New Uses for Cold Blood, by Joanna Radin. British Journal for the History of Science 51, no. 1 (March 2018): 176-177.
Public-Facing
Podcasts
From 2014-2020 I was a host of New Books in Medicine, then New Books in Science, Technology, and Society, both podcasts on the New Books Network. I’ve created an archive of my work.
Museums
I spent the summer of 2014 creating the online guide to “Calculating Devices” from abaci to the Altair for Cambridge’s Whipple Museum of the History of Science.
Blogs
“Taking Human Genetics Digital: ‘Mendelian Inheritance in Man’ and the Genealogy of Electronic Publishing in Biomedicine,” History of Knowledge, May 7, 2018.