Curriculum Vitae

Education

PhD Student University of Pennsylvania

History and Sociology of Science, 2023 Cohort

Master of Science, University of Utah

Environmental Humanities, May 2023

Thesis: Gazing at Queer Ecological Precarity: A Critical Cultural Geography of Fire Island, New York

Bachelor of Arts, SUNY Purchase

Media, Society & the Arts | Art History | Film, May 2018

Thesis: “Guided Resiliency: Post-Natural Place & Potential in Rochester, NY”

Publications

Carter, Amelia. “Review: Feminism in the Wild: How Human Biases Shape our Understanding of Animal Behavior by Ambika Kamath and Melina Packer, 2025 (MIT Press)” Backchannels, November 24th, 2025.

Carter, Amelia. “Cruising Ecotopia: Whither Queer Trans Ecology?” TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, November 1, 2024.

Carter, Amelia. “Blurring Barriers on Fire Island.” Edge Effects, June 2, 2022.

Presentations

Joint meeting of the History of Science Society and the European Society for the History of Science, July 2026

“Sapphasaura and the Queer Science of Knowledge Reproduction at the American Museum of Natural History” Activist Epistemics and Artefacts: Facing Science while Making Science Symposium.

Queer Class Relations Conference; CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center, April 2026

“Sapphasaura and the Queer Work of Reptile Reproduction at the American Museum of Natural History” Queer and Trans Art and Archives, panel.

Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting; Chicago IL, April 2025

“Sapphasaura and the Queer Science of Reptile Reproduction at the American Museum of Natural History” Emerging Voices in Queer and Trans Histories and Histories of Sexuality, Committee on the Status of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) Historians and Histories solicited panel. Endorsed by the WHA.

Northeast Modern Language Association 54th Annual Convention; Niagra Falls NY, March 2023

“Reading the Ebb and Flow of Cultural Resource Management on Fire Island National Seashore” Natural Spaces and Managed Wilderness: Mediation in National and State Parks, panel.

Awards and Grants

• 2022 Environmental Humanities Summer Engagement Grant
• 2021 Environmental Humanities Fall Outstanding Seminar Paper Award for “Semiotics of the Skep: Biopolitical Entanglements in the More-Than-Human Colony”
• 2021-2022 Environmental Humanities Departmental Funding via Graduate Research Assistantship
• 2018 Media, Society & the Arts Outstanding Senior Award
• 2017 SUNY Purchase School of Natural & Social Sciences Undergraduate Research Support Award
• 2017 Media, Society & the Arts Outstanding Junior Award
• 2017 PSGA Outstanding Service: SUNY Purchase FreeStore
• 2017-19 PSGA Public Artists in Residence
• 2017 PSGA Outstanding Club Campaign: Leading the Green Team fight for clean campus water
• 2016 Green Fee Grant

Service

Organizing Committee: Queer Class/Room, Graduate Student Symposium 2025-2026

Graduate Student Representative: History and Sociology of Science Department 2024-Present

Experience: On-Campus

Graduate Teaching Assistant History and Sociology of Science Department, University of Pennsylvania, 2024-Present

• Emergence of Modern Science, Fall 2024 & Summer 2025
• Medicine in History, Spring & Fall 2025
• Health & Societies, Spring 2026

Graduate Research Assistant Natural History Museum of Utah, Exhibits Department 2021-2023

• Editorial assistant to the Natural History Museum of Utah’s chief exhibit developer
• Leading image collection and data management for NHMU’s Wild Wasatch Front Field Guide
• Prototyping new exhibit interactives, collecting visitor feedback and processing qualitative data
• Working with NHMU scientists and volunteers to turn their research into public- facing stories and exhibits
• Assisting preparator team in new exhibit fabrication

Teaching Assistant: Environmental Media SUNY Purchase College, Spring 2018

• Worked with Professors Jason Pine & Michelle Stewart to develop curriculum
• Evaluated student work, giving feedback and grading weekly assignments
• Lectured on my own research on post-industrial urban placemaking in the Anthropocene
• Designed a final project for the course in which students wrote their own post- natural guides

Symposium Curator: Media, Society & the Arts Senior Symposium SUNY Purchase College, Spring 2018

• Solicited work from fellow academics and artists in the MSA department
• Booked space, coordinated catering, and tech support for various installations
• Designed marketing materials and promoted the show via social media

Experience: Beyond Campus

Founder & Artist-Owner: The Garlic Press 2025-Present

Phila, PA & Saugerties, NY

Director: The Mamarie Residency 2020-2021

Nederland, CO

Office Manager: Heights Psychology Collective 2019-2020

Brooklyn, NY

Café & Bar Manager: Housing Works Bookstore Cafe 2018 – 2019

New York City, NY

Founder & Community Organizer: Purchase FreeStore 2016 - 2018

Purchase, NY

Skills

• Scientific, Professional and Public-facing writing
• Qualitative Data Collection and Analysis
• Comprehensive social media management
• Squarespace & Wordpess
• Canva
• Zotero
• Microsoft Office & GSuite Administration
• Adobe Creative Cloud
• Letterpress
• Tapestry & Rug Tufting