Her research is focused on the entwined histories of human biology and ecology, epidemiology, and biotechnology since WWII. She earned her PhD in the History and Sociology of Science at UPenn in 2012 and is currently working on a book manuscript titled, Life on Ice: Cold War, Cold Societies, Cold Blood. She recently co-edited a special issue of Social Studies of Science on “Indigenous Body Parts and Postcolonial Technoscience” and is in the process of preparing an edited volume with Emma Kowal (Melbourne) titled Defrost: New Perspectives on Temperature, Time and Survival.