Lecturer
North America
My dissertation, "The Agricultural Chemist at the Table: Land Grant Colleges, Experiment Stations, and the Birth of Nutrition Science in the United States, 1887-1930," examined the origins and development of nutrition science in the United States with a focus on chemists studying nutrition at land-grant universities in the mid to far West. My research investigates the relationship between laboratory and field research in nutrition science and the connections between science, government, industry, and the public during a transformative period in American foodways.
Awards & Fellowships
Friends of Cal History Dissertation Prize, 2023
Berkeley Connect Senior Fellowship, History Department, UC Berkeley, 2022-2023
Berkeley Graduate Division Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, 2022
Phi Beta Kappa: Alpha of California Graduate Fellowship, 2019
Western Association of Women Historians Founders’ Dissertation Fellowship, 2019
Graduate Division Student Mentoring and Research Teams (SMART) Grant, University of California, Berkeley, 2018
Bordin-Gillette Fellowship, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan, 2018
Andrew Mellon Fellowship, Massachusetts Historical Society, 2017
Friends of the UW-Madison Libraries Grant, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2017
Bancroft Library Study Award, University of California, Berkeley, 2017
Phi Beta Kappa, University of California, Los Angeles, 2012
UCLA Latin Honors: Magna Cum Laude, 2012
Research Interests
- History of Foodways
- History of Public Health
- History of Science and Medicine
- Agricultural and Environmental History
- American West
- U.S. History