My work explores how humans become embedded in technologies and how we use technologies to understand human identity. I am particularly interested in how human bodies become quantified in the modern world and how historical legacies of human measurement live on in present-day science, medicine, and society. I am a postdoctoral fellow at the Committee on Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science at the University of Chicago and an iSchool Research Fellow at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

My book project, The Afterlives of Skulls, is under advanced contract with the University of Chicago Press. The book makes visible how measuring skulls for the purpose of studying human variation, often assumed to be an outdated medical-scientific practice, in fact remained at the forefront of science and technology in the twentieth century. It reveals how historical skull collections, cranial datasets, and statistical tools continue to shape contemporary scientific and social understandings of human variation.

I teach widely in history of science, medicine & technology; critical data studies, and science studies. I hold a Ph.D. in history from UCLA (2020) and a B.A. (2011) and M.A. (2013) in history from Utrecht University.

Please contact me at clever [at] uchicago.edu