ABOUT

I'm a diligent problem solver, comprehensive analyst, thorough researcher, and a dedicated team-member.

Approach

Given my academic training, I've come to understand that lasting ideas require reflection and the weight of content. For me, ideas that seem to stick around require a thorough base of analysis and often a novel avenue of approach. Lasting ideas take time to develop, but analysis coupled with an eye towards overlooked networks can yield surprising results.

I'm particularly interested in finding new and novel connections and solutions for a given problem. I especially enjoy looking at a problem globally, but then distilling the problem down to its base parts to see how things work on an interconnected level. I find collaborative work to be especially useful in generating lasting ideas and I enjoy being part of something that becomes greater than the sum of its parts.

Scholarly Work as an Example

My thesis examines performance magicians in eighteenth-century Britain. A relatively unexplored area in the history of science, this examination drills down to the most basic elements in the late eighteenth-century: politics, publishing, science, intellectual property, intellectual history, finance, and invention. In the eighteenth century, personal and professional relationships were measured in literal paces. And now in the twenty-first century, the analogy again holds true thanks to today's technological environment.

Training in the history and philosophy of science allows me to reanalyze established ideas, and value comes in recognizing the intricate and often overlapping connections between various enterprises. These kinds of relationship networks are hardly limited to magicians or the eighteenth century.

Projects in the Academy

Some recent examples of my media and video work are found in the left-hand navigation bar. Please explore to see more.