The Texas coast is home to the beach that raised me. Even though I no longer live on the Gulf Coast, my experience growing up in the shadow of industrialized seas still motivates how I move through the world today. I am currently focused on pairing my creative practice with marine humanities scholarship.
I am a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Wisconsin—Madison in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology program. Broadly, my interests coalesce at the intersection of knowledge-making and meaning-making. Currently, my research focuses on the role of the marine sciences and structures of global ocean governance in shaping how humans have valued and made decisions about Earth’s saline spaces.
contact: snewton4(at)wisc(dot)edu
