As a scholar, Jeffrey's interests span the intersections between technology, business, and society. Jeffrey has published articles on subjects including the history of the waffle iron in America (Petit Propos Culinaire), fish preservation through time (The Graduate Journal of Food Studies), and how the Sondheim musical Company conveys 1960s understandings of the human sciences (History of the Human Sciences).

📚 Currently, he studies business and technology in modern America. He is working on an article about how policymakers and the public reconfigured urban culture around the introduction of the Walkman headphones, and his PhD dissertation looks at the formation and evolution of the dating industry in America from 1965 to the present. 

🧑‍🏫 In the classroom, Jeffrey has taught across disciplines and grade levels from middle school geology to tenth grade chemistry to an undergraduate course on business history. Jeffrey strives to create a classroom that demonstrates science as an ever-evolving, sometimes-fallible process. He does so through a combination of inquiry-based activities and an emphasis on the sociocultural contexts in which scientific knowledge has been developed. Lofty ideals aside, he sees teaching as an emotional process, so he works to create a fun, engaging, and light-hearted classroom where students feel comfortable engaging and taking risks.

💼 Jeffrey's work in education extends beyond his research and teaching. While at Bain and Company, he helped develop a grant program for innovative postsecondary education pathways, and he has worked as both the corporate strategy director and chief of staff (for Heinemann) at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, one of the nation's leading K-12 education companies. 

☕ If you find Jeffrey on the weekends, he may be baking snickerdoodles, reading in coffee shops, watching theater, listening to This American Life, or kayaking.