I am a historian at Columbia University, where I’m currently a fellow in the Society of Fellows. I received a PhD in history of science from Harvard University. My current book project is a history of the climate crisis, told through the alternating lenses of the history of climate science, the history of climate governance, and the history of capitalism. In 2019 research for this project received the Rachel Carson Prize for the best dissertation in environmental history from the American Society for Environmental History. My academic writing has appeared in Critical Inquiry, Environmental History, and Environmental Humanities, among other outlets. I also write essays and reviews about contemporary climate politics in places like The New York Review of Books, Public Books, and Jacobin.
Before joining Columbia, I was a Mellon postdoctoral fellow in environmental humanities at the University of Illinois. I received a BA from Wesleyan University.