Ph.D., Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine
Fellow in Residence
2017 - 2018

Navigating the World: The Material Culture of Physical Mobility Impairment in the Early American North, 1728-1861

I study history through everyday things. I am working on a book and exhibition project related to my dissertation, “Navigating the World: The Material Culture of Physical Mobility Impairment in the Early American North, 1728-1861.″ I am investigating the experience and meaning of disability in early America using archival sources as well as objects in museum collections ranging from artificial limbs and adult cradles to gout cranes and crutches.

The Mortar, the Pestle, and the Slave Trade: British Pharmacy and Slave Trading in the Eighteenth Century

Carolyn Roberts of Harvard University, 2015-16 Consortium Dissertation Fellow, discussing a chapter of her dissertation at the American Philosophical Society in a seminar of the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, moderated by the Director of the McNeil Center, Daniel K. Richter. Philadelphia, October 2015.