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EDUCATION
Ph.D., Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
Cornell University, 2009
M.Ph., Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic
University of Cambridge, 2002
B.S., Mathematics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001
B.S., Humanities
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001
ACADEMIC HONORS AND AWARDS
Cornell-Heidelberg Exchange Fellowship, 2007-2008
James F. Slevin Assignment Sequence Prize, 2007
Cornell University Provost's Diversity Fellowship, Fall 2006
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, 2003-2006
General Electric Foundation Fellowship, Fall 2002
Cambridge Overseas Trust Bursary, 2001-2002
Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling (Consortium for Mathematics and its Applications): Meritorious, 2000; Honorable Mention, 2001
PUBLICATIONS AND COLLOQUIA
"An icy adventure in Friðþjófs saga ins frækna," presented at the Fiske Conference on Medieval Icelandic Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, May 2009
"How fast could Vikings skate?" presented at the Fiske Conference on Medieval Icelandic Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, May 2007
"Bone skates and climate dynamics," presented at the Fiske Conference on Medieval and Icelandic Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, May 2006
J.W.M. Bush, B.A. Thurber, and F. Blanchette, "Particle clouds in homogeneous and stratified environments," Journal of Fluid Mechanics 289:29-54, 2003
"A new interpretation of Frithiof's steel shoes.'' Scandinavica 50.2:6--30, 2011 "Voicing of initial interdental fricatives in Early Middle English function words.'' Journal of Germanic Linguistics 23.1:65--81, 2011
"Sliding on ice and snow in Old Norse literature,'' International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 2012
"Literature as science: A Baconian analysis of blindness in Oedipus the King,'' Association for Core Texts and Courses Annual Conference, Carthage College, March 2012 "How Sleipnir ran: The physics of octopedal equine locomotion,'' Fiske Conference on Medieval Icelandic Studies, Cornell University, June 2011 "Footwear for knattleikr,'' Fiske Conference on Medieval Icelandic Studies, Cornell University, June 2010
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