RESUMé
Education
PhD, University of California, Berkeley - 2022
History of Science and Technology | Dissertation, The Astronomical Realists: The Social Mechanics of Visual Documentation, Art, and the American Space Age, 1944 – 1987
B.A., University of California, Santa Cruz - 2013
Double Major in Studio Art and American Intellectual History
Research & Fellowships
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Getty Pacific Standard Time Exhibition Consultant in Partnership with the City of Glendale, 2023
University of Southern California
Center for Science, Technology, and Public Life | Berggruen Institute Fellow , 2022 - 2023
California institute of technology
Getty Pacific Standard Time Exhibition Contributor , 2022 - 2023
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Center for Global Security Research, Graduate Fellow , 2021
Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum
Guggenheim Predoctoral Fellow, Department of Space History, 2018 - 2019
Program Management and Design
The Space.Craft Agency
Artist and Project Manager, 2021 - Present
U.C. Berkeley Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society
Art + Science Residency, Program Director 2016 - 2017
NASA Ames Research Center
University Space Research Associate, New Media Innovation Team 2013 - 2015
Selected Press and Publications
In Person
Guest speaker, NO EVIL: Echoes from the Forest. Sci-Arc gallery event with Jennifer Chen and Spiros Michalakis, April 7th, 2023. Full video of conversation.
Podcast contributor, The Ministry of Ideas, “Illuminations Episode 6: Manifest Mars,” produced by the Harvard Divinity School and the Boston Globe Ideas Section. Episode aired March 20th, 2023.
Guest lecturer, “How to Paint What You Can’t See: Lessons from Astronomical Illustration” for Cosmological Elements exhibition organized by the Fosun Foundation in Shanghai, China.
Featured expert, Beyond Tomorrow: The Futuristic Art of Roy Scarfo. Directed by Brett Ryan Bonowicz: Clindar Productions. Full documentary available on YouTube, see Lois first appear at 15:52.
Guest speaker, “What’s New in Aerospace,” Facebook Live. Apollo 50th Anniversary at the National Air and Space Museum, July 2019.
In Print
“What is AI Doing to Art?” Noema Magazine, April 11th, 2023.
New York Times expert contributor, “The Lonely Work of Picking the Universe’s Best Astronomy Pictures,” and “50 Years After the Apollo 17 Mission, the Moon Looks Closer than Ever,” by Joshua Sokol, 2023.
“Space Art: A Modern Movement,” in The Beauty of Space: Space Art from the International Association of Astronomical Artists, Vol. 2. Springer, 2020.
“Through Astronaut Eyes: Photographing Early Human Spaceflight by Jennifer K. Levasseur.” Book Review, Technology and Culture, Volume 63, Number 1, (2021): 289–91.
“When the Western Frontier Met the Final Frontier,” Review of Destined for the Stars: Faith, the Future, and America’s Final Frontier, by Catherine Newell. Journal for the History of Astronomy, November 2019, Vol. 50, Issue 4. pg. 499 – 500.
Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion
American Council of Learned Societies, Intention Foundry
Society Scholar, History of Science Society Representative, 2023
History of Science Society
Co - Chair, Committee on Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion, 2023 - 2026
University of California Office of the President
Office for Graduate Diversity Dissertation Fellow, 2021 - 2022
