PhD Student
College: Darwin
Supervisor: Staffan Mueller-Wille
Thesis topic: Mobilising Chocolate: Plants, Pathogens and People 1880-2000
Prior education
2023: MPhil in History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge (distinction)
2022: BA in Comparative Literature, Princeton University (magna cum laude)
Department Roles
2024–25: Convener of the Cabinet of Natural History
2024–: Co-Convener of AD HOC (History of Chemistry)
2024–: Co-Convener of Jokes in the Sciences
Teaching
2024–25: Undergraduate supervisions for HPS Part II Paper 1: Early Science and Medicine
2024–25: Undergraduate supervisions for HPS Part II Paper 3: Modern Medicine and Life Sciences
Grants, fellowships and awards
2024–2028: AHRC Science Museum Archives Consortium Collaborative Doctoral Project Funding (student initiated and designed project)
2024-: Darwin Landon-Sender PhD studentship in the Arts and Humanities, Darwin College Cambridge
2023: Jennifer Redhead Prize, HPS Cambridge
2022: Rausing, Williamson and Lipton Awards for MPhil study
2022: Asher Hinds Prize for best Undergraduate Thesis in European Cultural Studies
Selected Conference/Invited Presentations
January 2025: “Profession and Purpose: Hugh Cuming (1791-1865) and nineteenth-century Philippine Flora,” Heidelberg University
December 2024: “Materials and Networks: William Heberden’s Eighteenth Century Materia Medica Cabinet,” Colonial Natures Workshop
November 2024: “Herbaria and Natural History Collecting,” co-presentation and workshop with Edwin Rose, Cambridge University Herbarium
October 2024: “Chocolate as Material Culture,” co-presentation and workshop with Hannah Landecker, Material Culture Forum, Cambridge
October 2024: “Opening the Box of Chocolates: a tasting introduction to the histories of chocolate,” Magdalene College, Cambridge
July 2024: “Profession and Purpose: Hugh Cuming (1791-1865) and nineteenth-century Philippine Flora,” BSHS Conference
