My goal as a teacher is to cultivate professionals who ask why? I challenge students to question the world around them, and their role in it. I help students develop techniques to analyze the power, possibilities, and limitations of technology and science. Through engaged practice, I build students’ confidence in applying those tools in the world.  

My courses include the history of interdisciplinary design and media, innovation studies, the evolution of global engineering cultures from the 18^th to the 21^st centuries, history of modern science, Introduction to STS, and a variety of specialized topics.

Doctoral students I mentor have gone on to tenure-track jobs in the United States, Canada, and Korea as well as academic leadership, government service, and private consulting. As an advisor I work closely with students to connect their interests to emergent areas of STS scholarship and identify careers that serve their strengths. I am honored to have received the Graduate School’s Outstanding Mentor award.

I currently serve as the director of Virginia Tech’s storied graduate program in Science and Technology Studies.