Curriculum Vitae
Education
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PhD, 2014 Johns Hopkins University, The Humanities Center
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MA, 2011 Johns Hopkins University, Philosophy
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BA, 2008 University of California Berkeley, Rhetoric and Philosophy
Articles
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"Qu’est-ce que la métaphysique positive?" in La métaphysique et les sciences au XIXe siècle en France, eds. Delphine Antoine-Mahut and Samuel Lézé (Brill: Leiden, NL, 2023), page forthcoming.
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“Maine de Biran and Neurology” in Posterities of Maine de Biran’s Physiospiritualism, ed. Manfred Milz (Brill: Leiden, NL, 2023), page forthcoming.
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"Bergson, Servant of Colonialism: Education and Empire in North Africa under the French Third Republic," Bergsoniana, vol. 2 (2022): 41-54.
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"What We Talk About When We Talk About Data," Medium, Feb. 23 (2022): page online.
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“Mapping the Kitchen (and Other Distant Lands),” Medium, Oct. 1 (2020): page online.
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“Freedom needs friction: lessons in choice from French history,” Aeon, Sep. 23 (2020): page online.
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“Caught in Eye Trackers’ Blind Spots: Adapting Vision Studies to Ethnographic Field Research,” Human-Computer Interaction: Human Interface and the Management of Information, vol. 11569 (2019): 76-88.
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“Eye Tracking in Medical Ethnography: Evaluating Evidence for Perception, Action, and Collaboration across Healthcare Professions,” Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Proceedings, vol. 1 (2018): 144-158.
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“Moderating Styles: Understanding Diverse Techniques for Root Cause Analysis,” Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, vol. 62, no. 1 (2018): 605-609. With Kathryn Tippey, Mary Yovanoff, and Peter Sneeringer.
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“Intellectual Ambassadors: Building Peace Across the Atlantic in the Early 20th Century,” History of Humanities, vol. 3, no. 1 (2018): 159-175
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“Historiography, Affect, and the Neurosciences,” History of Psychology, vol. 20, no. 2 (2017): 129-147.
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“Confronting the Brain in the Classroom: Lycée Policy and Pedagogy in France, 1874 - 1902," History of the Human Sciences, vol. 28, no. 1 (2015): 3-24
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“Alfred Fouillée Between Science and Spiritualism,” Modern Intellectual History (Oct. 2014): 1-23
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“The Brain in the Third Republic: Science, Pedagogy, and National Regeneration,” Proceedings of the Western Society for French History, vol. 42 (2014)
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“Bergson Comes to America,” Journal of the History of Ideas, vol. 74, no. 4 (Oct. 2013): 599-620
Professional Appointments
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2022 – Amazon, Research leader for Prime Video
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2019 - 22 Facebook, Senior User Researcher
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2017-19 Design Science, Consultant
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2015-17 Wesleyan University, Andrew W. Mellon Fellow
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2014-15 Johns Hopkins University, Visiting Assistant Professor of History
Book Reviews
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“Dana Simmons. Vital Minimum: Need, Science & Politics in Modern France.” H-France Reviews (Jul. 2016)
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“From the Globe to the Brain and Back. Lynn Hunt, Writing History in the Global Era.” Los Angeles Review of Books. (Oct. 2015)
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“Warren Breckman. Adventures of the Symbolic: Post-Marxism and Radical Democracy,” Modern Language Notes, vol. 129, no. 5 (Dec. 2014)
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“Andrew Jewett. Science, Democracy, and the American University,” Modern Language Notes, vol. 128, no. 5 (Dec. 2013)
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“Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen. American Nietzsche. A History of an Icon and His Ideas,” Modern Language Notes, vol. 127, no. 5 (Dec. 2012): 1263-67
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“Peter Gordon. Continental Divide. Heidegger, Cassirer, Davos,” Modern Language Notes, vol. 126, no. 5 (Dec. 2011): 1140-44
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“Stefanos Geroulanos, An Atheism that Is Not Humanist Emerges in French Thought,” Modern Language Notes, vol. 125, no. 5 (Dec. 2010): 1164-67
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“Judith Butler. Frames of War: When is Life Grievable?,” Modern Language Notes, vol. 124, no. 5 (Dec. 2009): 1233-36