Museum curator + historian of science

I am a curator, historian of science, and generally all-around curious person.

Currently, I am associate curator of science and technology at the MIT Museum, where I currently have an exhibition up about whales and knowledge-making, and I am preparing an exhibition about computer games. I earned my Ph.D. in history of science from Princeton University, following a BA in history and a BS in biochemistry from the University of California, San Diego. Prior to arriving at the MIT Museum, I was the curator of The Sarnoff Collection, a museum dedicated to the history of communication technology at The College of New Jersey.

I am enthralled by armadillos and vacuum tubes in equal measure.

Exhibitions

  • “Monsters of the Deep: Between Imagination and Science,” (co-curated with Elisabeth Meier), MIT Museum

  • “Toys that Teach: Edmund Berkeley’s Computer Games,” MIT Museum

  • “Modeling Everything,” MIT Museum

  • “Made to Measure,” MIT Museum

  • “In Living Color,” The Sarnoff Collection

  • “In the Groove: A Century of Sound,” The Sarnoff Collection

  • “From World-Wide-Wireless to Chipper,” The Sarnoff Collection

  • “Research Comes to Life,” off-site installation for SRI Princeton, developed at The Sarnoff Collection

  • “Mr. Fix-It: The Tools of the Repair Trade,” The Sarnoff Collection

  • “Message Received: Selections from the Sarnoff Collection,” (co-curated with Jonathan Allen), off-site installation for the IEEE, developed at The Sarnoff Collection

  • “Making Innovation: Artists and Engineers,” (co-curated with Margaret Granlund) The College of New Jersey Art Gallery

  • “Playing with Innovation: The Games of Joseph Weisbecker,” The Sarnoff Collection

Media appearances