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* 26 January 2026 | I am delighted to be invited to join the Yale ISPS Graduate Policy Fellows Program for 2026. Research funding from the ISPS will support my ethnographic fieldwork and the translation of my research findings into public-facing writing.
* 11 January 2026 | Fantastic piece in the London Review of Books by John Lancaster, reviewing four books on AI—for anyone whose festive period dinner table brought up the theme.
* 18 November 2025 | Panofsky quoted in Alpers’ “The Art of Describing”: Jan van Eyck’s eye operates as a microscope and as a telescope at the same time... so that the beholder is compelled to oscillate between a position reasonably far from the picture and many positions very close to it... However, such perfection had to be bought at a price. Neither a microscope nor a telescope is a good instrument with which to observe human emotion.
* 27 October 2025 | Honored to be awarded a seed grant from Yale’s Women Faculty Forum, which will support ethnographic fieldwork I am conducting for my dissertation. You can read more about my project and those of other award receipients here.
* 3 June 2025 | Gender Work, the reading group I co-convene with Maia Vitarini Lwin and Adora Svitak, will be supported by the Whitney Humanities Center for another year. In the 2024-2025 academic year, with funding from the Whitney Humanities Center, we discussed work by Melinda Cooper, Charlotte Shane, Mark Rifkin, Sophie Lewis, Andrea Dworkin, and Perry Zurn.
* 10 May 2025 | Excited to share the article “Will Sex and Reproduction Remain Separable in the United States? It’s a Matter of Life and Death”, co-authored by myself and Prof. Rene Almeling, published in the inaugural issue of Sex & Sexualities.
* 27 April 2025 | Mervyn Peake, ‘To Live is Beautiful Enough’: Machines are weaker than a beetle’s wing.
* 8 April 2025 | Thrilled to be involved in the latest ASA and SAGE journal, Sex & Sexualities, co-edited by Prof. Amy Stone and Prof. Krystale Littlejohn. The inaugural issue, coming out in May, includes a paper co-authored by Prof. Rene Almeling and I which is titled “Will Sex and Reproduction Remain Separable in the United States? It’s a Matter of Life and Death.”