Storm Chasers, Environmental History, and Craft

Join me today for a fascinating conversation with Kate Carpenter! Kate is a doctoral candidate in the history of science at Princeton University, with an MA in history (public history emphasis) from the University of Missouri-Kansas City and a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia. Her dissertation is a scientific and social history of storm chasing in the second half of the twentieth-century United States, which examines scientific and hobbyist storm chasers investigating severe storms and tornadoes within the environmental context of the Great Plains. She is also the producer and host of Drafting the Past, a podcast about the craft of writing history, one of my favorite new podcast discoveries!