I am a visiting assistant professor of history at Carnegie Mellon University, where I served as the CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Science and Computing from 2018 to 2020. From January through July of 2018 I held the Kluge Fellowship in Digital Studies at the Library of Congress. Previously I served as visiting faculty in history at Washington and Lee University. I recently received my Ph.D. from the University of Virginia.
I am a scholar of the politics, technology, culture, and business of the twentieth century United States, with a broader interest in the "deep history" -- the policy, economic, social, and environmental frameworks -- that shaped modern technologies and information society. I'm interested in governments, institutions, technologies, and markets and how the intersections of those varied forces in the task of managing information can structure public policy, shape culture, and remake the natural and man-made worlds.
For greater detail on my current research agenda, please click here.
On a personal note, I'm from a small town in Alabama. I studied history and literature near the hub of the universe. Once upon a time I did vaguely comedic things.