I have taught in the Environmental Studies Program at Wellesley College since the fall of 2006. My training is in environmental history and environmental studies.

Currently, I am completing a book on the history of American environmental politics tentatively titled "The Promise of Wilderness: A History of American Environmental Politics." In chronicling the expansion of the federal wilderness system between 1964 and present and the shift toward a broader agenda for public lands reform, my work explores two nested questions: how have debates over the public lands affected modern environmental politics and how have debates over environmental reform affected American politics more broadly?

My teaching at Wellesley includes a range of courses in the Environmental Studies Program. I teach an introductory course focused on issues and concepts important to environmental studies which is organized around climate change. I teach two 200-level core courses: U.S. Environmental History considers the dynamic relationship between the environment and human history from the colonial period to present. Cultures of Environmentalism takes a comparative approach to environmentalism across history and cultures. And my U.S. Environmental Politics seminar examines the laws, stakeholders, and political and policy processes important to the federal environmental regulatory state through a series of contemporary case studies.

At Wellesley, I've enjoyed working with students on research projects pertaining to public lands politics, international nature protection, and public attention to climate change.

I received a B.S. from Washington and Lee University in 1995, an A.M. in American Civilization from Brown University in 1996, a Ph.D. in History (History of Science) from Princeton University in 2004, and a certificate in Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton in 2005.