Graduate Students

Research Interests

My research explores the entangled histories of ecological change, scientific knowledge, human practice, and nonhuman agency, with particular attention to forests and protected landscapes. My dissertation examines the history of bark beetle outbreaks in the Harz Mountains' forests as a way to trace the changing paradigm shifts in German forestry from commercial forestry to a promoting a European wilderness, where a forest ecosystem is managed for ecological dynamics.

Dissertation

"“Forest of Tomorrow: Recreation, Forestry, and Nature Conservation in the Harz Mountains"

Education

MA, History, University of Rochester, 2020
BA, History, Magna Cum Laude, University of Massachusetts--Lowell, 2019

Selected Publications

Non-Peer-Reviewed Articles

• “Borkenkäfer und Fichtenwald im Harz,” Archive im Sachsen Anhalt, Fall 2025 (in print)

Presentations

• “Is a National Park Appropriate? International Conservation Standards in the Harz Mountains since 1989,” 13th Biannual European Society for Environmental History Conference, Uppsala, Sweden, August 18-22, 2025.
• “Nature in Reunified Germany: Consuming and Protecting the German Landscape in the Harz Mountains,” German Studies Association Annual Conference. Atlanta, Georgia, September 26-29, 2024.
• “From Kulturlandschaft to Wildnis: Nature Protection, Forestry, and Tourism in the Harz Mountains,” Colloquium, Institut für Historische Landesforschung. Georg-August Universität Göttingen, May 29, 2024.

Teaching

• HIST 191: America's Best Idea? Global History of National Parks, Fall 2024
• HIST 126: Hitler's Germany, Spring 2022 (Teaching Assistant)
• HIST 154: World History Through Soccer, Fall 2022 (Teaching Assistant)

Honors

• Meliora Digital and Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellowship, University of Rochester, 2025-2027
• German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)One-Year Research Fellowship, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 2023-2024
• 2023-2024, DAAD One-Year Research Fellowship, Gerog-August-Universität Göttingen
• 2023 Lina and A. William Salomone Prize, University of Rochester
• 2022 Bruce Pauley Fellowship, University of Rochester
• 2018-2019 O'Mallie Family History Endowment Scholarship, UMass Lowell

Life before URochester?

For several years I worked as an interpretative park ranger at Acadia National Park.