I am an assistant professor in early modern history at Hunter College, with an interest in the cultural history of science. Previously, I was a postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University. I received my PhD from Harvard University in 2009.

My research examines the impact of global trade on cultural production in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. I explore how commercial networks played a crucial role in the growth and transmission of empirical knowledge; and how commercial secrecy and marketing transformed the public sphere and the Republic of Letters.  

News: 

Koen Vermeir and I have co-authored an article on secrecy in science, which has been published in the British Journal for the History of Science. I discussed this article with Dave
Levine at Hearsay Culture a few weeks ago, and you can
listen to the podcast here.