I am a historian of art, science, and ecology in northern Europe and the early modern world (c. 1400-1700) who examines how people honed visual and material ways of investigating and defining nature.

 

As an editor, mentor, and convenor of scholarly communities and an organizer of public conversations, I work to expose the similarities and differences between early modernity and the present.

 

My scholarship reveals how deep understandings of early modern art, science, and ecologies can help us confront contemporary issues with greater nuance and clarity.