COLLABORATIONS
Watershed Governance in Motion
October 2026
Lead plannerEnvironmental historians have observed that water defies tidy ideas about individual and state land use, independence, and private property: despite legal systems with neat delineations, one heavy rainstorm or drought demonstrates that these legal categories mean little across the landscape. Given the importance of watersheds across fields, we seek to convene a group of interdisciplinary specialists to interrogate how watersheds have been delineated, governed, and imagined, and what possibilities might be envisioned for their futures.
This interdisciplinary workshop brings together scholars to discuss the challenges and affordances of watershed governance.
Women’s, Trans, and Nonbinary Caucus Oral History Project
Chair, 2025-The History of Science Society’s Women’s, Trans, and Nonbinary Caucus Oral History Project seeks to gathering stories and memories from leading women in the society’s history. The project has created tools for conducting oral histories and is pursuing a select number of interviews that will record these experiences and, we hope, foster an inclusive intellectual community within the History of Science Scoiety.
“With that Shadow Over Them”: Constructuring Catskill Reservoirs, Remembering Home
October 2024-May 2025
Exhibit co-curatorYager Museum of Art and Culture at Hartwick College, in Oneonta, NY.
Using photographs, transcripts from mid-twentieth century eminent domain proceedings, and recently digitized oral histories conducted in the 1980s and 1990s, the exhibit considers the tension between intimate and interlinked losses in the Catskills and the public benefits of the water supply system.
Some of the oral histories used in the exhibit were digitized with support from a 2022 grant from the Agricultural History Society.
Public Environmental History in a World of Wounds
Building on a June 2024 workshop, Public Environmental History in a World of Wounds, I have been collaborating with a group of environmental historians, public history practitioners, and artists to explore environmental trauma as a method and theoretical frame for understanding environmental losses, harms, and hazards in history. With an emphasis on public history, the group is developing a set of interconnected articles and a mapping project designed to reach across academic and non-academic publics.Left: Former site of the village of Montela, along the Roundout Reservoir, Town of Neversink. 2020.