She received her Ph.D. in the history of science from Harvard University. Her research and teaching center on the history of science and the history of the book in the early modern world. She is currently finishing up her first book, Script, Print, Speech, Mail: Communicating Science in Early Modern Britain (under contract, University of Pennsylvania Press). She is starting on a second project tracing the cultural history of science through the posthumous fates of early modern scientists’ collections of papers.