I watched The Terror in April 2020 and the rest was history.

Specific areas of interest:

• The Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, especially the Belgica & Terra Nova expeditions
• Scrapbooks, ephemera, and polar publications created during expeditions (The South Polar Times, the Aurora Australis)
• Frederick Cook & his legacy
• The Franklin Expedition (duh)
• Sir Clements Markham, the material consequences of his polar obsession, & his role as connective tissue between the Victorians and the Heroic Age
• Popular reception of polar narratives in in the press and fictional media, literary interpretations of polar exploration
• Biographical details of officers & men, incl. family history and society connections

Elsewhere:

• Lead organizer of Terror Camp (2021-present)
• Volunteer at the Frederick Cook Society in Hurleyville, NY (ongoing)
• Wrote about the history of Antarctic conspiracies for Long Now
• Presented on Cook and Franklin at the History of Science Society conference 2022 in Chicago
• Received a NYU Digital Humanities Fellowship in 2022 to research the Victorian polar network at the British Library
• Assisted with Illuminator’s guide to Greenwich’s Polar Worlds
• Contributed to Finger-Post’s research on the missing Erebus clerk
• Helped with research on Crozier’s birth date for Haw Lantern
• and probably a lot more