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

  • Split | Second, MIT Museum, ongoing

  • Monsters of the Deep: Between Imagination and Science, (co-curated with Elisabeth Meier), MIT Museum, closed January 2026

  • Toys that Teach: Edmund Berkeley’s Computer Games, MIT Museum, closed January 2025

  • Modeling Everything, MIT Museum, ongoing

  • Made to Measure, MIT Museum, ongoing

  • In Living Color, The Sarnoff Collection, closed January 2022

  • In the Groove: A Century of Sound, The Sarnoff Collection, closed December 2019

  • From World-Wide-Wireless to Chipper, The Sarnoff Collection, closed October 2019

  • Research Comes to Life, off-site installation for SRI Princeton, developed at The Sarnoff Collection, closed August 2020

  • Mr. Fix-It: The Tools of the Repair Trade, The Sarnoff Collection, closed April 2023

  • Message Received, (co-curated with Jonathan Allen), off-site installation for the IEEE, developed at The Sarnoff Collection, closed June 2018

  • Making Innovation: Artists and Engineers, (co-curated with Margaret Granlund) The College of New Jersey Art Gallery, closed April 2018

  • Playing with Innovation: The Games of Joseph Weisbecker,The Sarnoff Collection, closed November 2018

Media appearances