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I am a first-year doctoral student in City and Regional Planning and the inaugural Fellow in the Initiative in the History of the Built Environment at the University of Pennsylvania’s Stuart Weitzman School of Design. As an historian of the built environment, I study the social and cultural history of urban environments and planning in the nineteenth and twentieth century United States as they are reflected and embedded in the built environment, discards, and visual and material culture. My research cultivates a process of reading waste as an avenue through which to understand urban and social transformation. Broadly, I am interested in how the urban landscape is a repository for historical narratives, how waste shapes the planning and management of the modern city, what the histories of landfills and waste facilities convey as a city changes over time, and how -- and to what end -- planning scholars and practitioners transform these sites for the future. I am interested in public history and the digital humanities at the intersection of my work as both an historian and scholar of urban planning.

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I am interested in sharing my work on the GUHP blog at a later date!

Society for American City and Regional Planning History (SACRPH) Biennial Conference

Urban History Association Biennial Conference