Curriculum Vitae

Profile

Lively & engaged historian of science, technology, and medicine with an appetite for issues of queer ecology and enviromental justice. A resolute researcher with a passion for interdisciplinary work and writing about urgent//emergent history creatively. Particular areas of interest include but are not limited to: science and technology studies, critical cultural geography, Indigenous epistemologies, technologies of visuality, reproductive labor, and museum studies.

Education

PhD Student University of Pennsylvania

History and Sociology of Science, entered 2023

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”

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
• Tapestry & Rug Tufting

Presentations & Publications

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

Carter, Amelia. “Reading the Ebb and Flow of Cultural Resource Management on Fire Island National Seashore” Northeast Modern Language Association Conference Presentation, March 2023

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

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

Academic Experience

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

• Emergence of Modern Science, Fall 2024
• Medicine in History, Spring 2025

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

Course Work

EHUM 6102 | Research Methods in Environmental Humanities Learned the basics of ecocriticism, visual analysis, ethnography, environmental history, science communication, and cultural geography

EHUM 6101 | Foundations of Environmental Humanities Read foundational texts and applied theoretical frameworks to urgent environmental discourses

EHUM 6850 | Issues in Environmental Humanities: Anthropocentrism & interrelations under climate change Survey of contemporary theories of anthropocentrism and its discontents, including New Materialist and Critical Animal Studies theory

EHUM 6850 | Issues in Environmental Humanities: The Histories of the Natural World in the Colonial Americas Survey of environmental histories, ethnographies, and visual analyses of the Colonial Americas

GNDR 6960 | Theorizing a Radical Future: Queer of Color Critique & Cultural Production Focused study of Queer of Color Critique and the cultural products it has influenced and been influenced by

Work Experience

Director: The Mamarie Residency 2020-2021 (On Leave)

• Secured residency facilities in Nederland, Colorado, making connections with local artist groups
• Select and invite artists, writers and scholars to the residency, ensuring their work will be well supported by our facilities
• Secure funds to add to and maintain tool and material inventory

Office Manager: Heights Psychology Collective 2019-2020

• Designed and maintained website & local advertisements as well as backend file management
• Digitized over 15 years of practice records in keeping with HIPPA Compliance
• Facilitated transition to new practice name and logo
• Oversaw office renovations & maintained a welcoming space

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

• Manage a staff of baristas and 50+ weekly volunteers
• Work with vendors and industry contacts to further develop the café’s offerings, including adding over 20 new beers, wines, and liquor capabilities to the menu
• Boost café efficiency and oversee improvement projects, including an extensive renovation that positioned the space to make full use of our liquor license and event capabilities

Founder & Community Organizer: SUNY Purchase FreeStore 2016 - 2018

• Identified campus space and funding as well as necessary approvals to start the FreeStore
• Managed a fleet of 15+ volunteers and interns to keep the space open 20+ hours a week with programming that ranged from workshops and lectures to concerts.
• Promoted the service through social media content, posters, and original merchandise
• Managed organization’s budget, handled performance contracts and worked to secure additional funds from various sources when needed
• Found and trained successors to make sure the FreeStore was stained after leaving campus