He received his PhD and MA from Princeton University, where he was a Harold W. Dodds Fellow, and an MA from the University of Chicago. In 2011 he was awarded a Fulbright Grant to Germany, where he was a Visiting Junior Fellow at the IKKM. He is the editor (along with Leif Weatherby) of the first English translation of Ernst Kapp’s Principles of a Philosophy of Technology, which will be published with University of Minnesota Press, and is currently writing a book about the visualization of counterfactuals in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.