Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon. She received her Ph.D. in history from Princeton University. A historian of science and an early modern Europeanist, she is interested in the co-production of science and politics, and is the author of over a dozen articles and book chapters on the history of friendship, constitutions, wish lists, celebrity, secrets, inventions, alchemy, magic and the reason of state. Her first book project, “The Wish List: Knowledge and Interest, 1575–1725,” explores how the literary technology of desiderata (shared epistemic desires) re-shaped the body of knowledge and its relationship to the body politic in early modern Europe.