I am an intellectual historian with particular interest in the intersection of the history of medicine, science, and future-oriented thought. My research explores how the future has been imagined—often in relation to existential hopes and fears—and examines key ideas such as control, conscious evolution, and the posthuman. I also study the history of evolutionary biology, especially in the century following On the Origin of Species, when Darwinian theory was advanced scientifically and reinterpreted culturally. My focus lies on the concept of life and the existential tensions within Darwinism. My dissertation, Controlling Destiny, explains the intellectual history of transhumanism through Julian Huxley’s (1887–1975) ideas on directed evolution and his belief that humanity could—and should—be improved through science and technology. It traces the legacy of his thought through later transhumanists of the 1970s–90s. I hold a PhD in the History of Ideas and a BA in Political Science.