I am currently a PhD student in the Department of History and Science Studies Program at the University of California, San Diego.
My general academic interests are current and historical intersections of politics, education, science, and religion. My current project is a comparative study of the politics of public education and evolution in the 1920s from the institutional perspective of the state sponsored university. I am also interested in twentieth century conservative Christian homeschooling movements and their somewhat uneasy relationship to science education. In particular, I am interested in the growth of alternative textbook and curriculum industries as a consequence of the rejection by these groups of mainstream science and a failure to politically oppose it in public school settings.