I am a historian of science and an Assistant Professor at the Columbia Climate School. I received a PhD in history of science from Harvard University. My current book project is a history of climate and energy policy in the late 1970s United States, when early scientific alarmism about global warming collided with policy debates about the energy crisis and the future of fossil fuels. The book looks at why the US ultimately failed to account for the risks of climate change as it attempted to devise long-term policies for achieving energy independence. In 2019 research for this project received the Rachel Carson Prize for the best dissertation in environmental history from the American Society for Environmental History. My academic writing has appeared in Critical Inquiry, Environmental History, and Environmental Humanities, among other outlets. I also write essays and reviews about contemporary climate politics in places like The New York Review of Books, The Nation, Public Books, and Jacobin. Before joining the Climate School, I was a postdoctoral fellow in the Society of Fellows at Columbia. I received a BA with high honors from Wesleyan University.