I am a historian of U.S. medicine, science, and health. My first book, Monstrous Conceptions: A History of Race, Disability, and Reproductive Medicine in the United States (Columbia University Press, 2026), explores the history of “monstrosity” as a category in modern medical science, revealing how historical practices produced enduring ideas about human difference.

I am currently the James Wade Rockwell Assistant Professor in Philosophy of Medicine at UTMB (Bioethics and Health Humanities Department). Previously, I taught as a lecturer at Yale University (History Department/School of Medicine) and Dartmouth College (History Department), and was a postdoctoral fellow in the Dartmouth Society of Fellows. I received my PhD in history of science from Harvard University.