Curriculum vitae
Education
PhD Biology (History & Philosophy of Science), Arizona State University
MS Biology (History & Philosophy of Science), Arizona State University
MA Anthropology, UT Austin
BA History, Arizona State University
BA Anthropology, Arizona State University
Research Interests
History of archaeology, anthropology, and paleoanthropology; history of science; literary non-fiction; history of ideas; Pleistocene studies.
Books
Endlings: Fables for the Anthropocene, University of Minnesota Press, 2022
Postcards: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Social Network, Reaktion, 2021
Genuine Fakes: How Phony Things Teach Us About Real Stuff, Bloomsbury, 2019
Seven Skeletons: The Evolution of the World's Most Famous Human Fossils Viking, 2016
Bookshelf Bloomsbury, 2016.
The Last Lost World: Ice Ages, Human Origins, and the Invention of the Pleistocene (co-authored with Stephen J. Pyne) Viking, 2012; paperback 2013.
Professional Memberships
The Authors Guild
PEN America
National Book Critics Circle