steely-eyed missile man
2023-2026
As Program Manager, I supported a small team researching and writing a comprehensive scholarly history of Johns Hopkins University.
I conducted extensive original archival research, created and maintained a research and writing calendar, wrote reports on project progress and research
findings for university leadership, and edited the manuscript for content, clarity, and citations. I collaborated with stakeholders across campus, including the Office of the President, the Office of Alumni Relations, Hopkins Retrospective, and the Sheridan Libraries to ensure the accuracy, scope, and timely delivery of the book. In coordination with the JHU Press staff, I edited the manuscript's 1000+ citations for accuracy and format. The book was published in Fall 2026, completed in just 4 years.
2014-2021
Lady Science was an independent magazine about women in the history of science. I oversaw all aspects of the magazine. I wrote, assigned, and edited pieces and managed our website and layout for editorial. I fielded pitches from freelance writers, and worked collaboratively with them to ensure the accuracy of their writing, adherence to the style guide, and helped shape their arguments for the magazine’s audience. and I also oversaw hiring additional team members and editors. On the development end, I managed our budget and planned and implemented twice-yearly fundraising campaigns, and managed our continuing crowdfunding and donor relationships. Each month we published historical articles by paid contributors and staff editors, as well as a monthly podcast. Lady Science partnered with organizations like the Schlesinger Library, UT Dallas Center for Values in Medicine, Science and Technology, The New Inquiry, Women You Should Know, and Massive Science.
2020-2022
As a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Oklahoma, I supported the Faculty Director in every aspect of executing the Forum’s mission to support arts and humanities faculty at OU. Working with campus financial offices, information technology, faculty and academic units, and research services across campus, I was responsible for the day-to-day operation of the Forum and was the first point of contact for faculty. In consultation with the director and the campus marketing office, I designed and implemented a rebrand for the Forum, including redesigning the organization emblem and making improvements to our website and overall web presence. In 2021, I helped redesign the Forum’s granting programs to bring them in line with national benchmarks for research support, including new programs designed to help faculty recover from the COVID 19 pandemic. I was the co-PI on a funded OU VPR Seed Grant for an ethnographic study of faculty research careers. I assisted the director in developing project goals for the Forum as part of an institutional application to the NEH American Rescue Plan granting cycle, for which the OU coalition of public humanities projects was awarded $500,000. As part of this grant, I was the Producer and Creator of Staying with the Question, a new podcast about OU humanities projects. I identified faculty projects to feature, researched and wrote episode scripts, and managed the publication and promotion of new episodes.
From the ancient world to the present women have been critical to the progress of science, yet their importance is overlooked, their stories lost, distorted, or actively suppressed. Forces of Nature sets the record straight and charts the fascinating history of women’s discoveries in science.In the ancient and medieval world, women served as royal physicians and nurses, taught mathematics, studied the stars, and practiced midwifery. As natural philosophers, physicists, anatomists, and botanists, they were central to the great intellectual flourishing of the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment. More recently women have been crucially involved in the Manhattan Project, pioneering space missions and much more. Despite their record of illustrious achievements, even today very few women win Nobel Prizes in science.
Vitrine was an exhibition and community space located in downtown Albuquerque, run by a collective. Vitrine was dedicated to supporting and cultivating underrepresented artists and providing space for our community to share its artistic and practical skills through workshops and other events. Vitrine was a non-commercial exhibition space that encouraged experimental, site specific and conceptual works and installation projects, and provided space for workshops, pop ups and other free and low-cost community events. In 2018 we won a grant from the Fulcrum Fund, a grant program of 516 Arts in association with the Andy Warhol Foundation, for a year of exhibitions. Vitrine hosted more than 10 solo exhibitions, in addition to group show and a month of accessible workshops. Shows have included experimental soundscapes, interactive video installations, autobiographical painting, and queer sculptural installation.
Night Shades is an online lit mag for speculative flash fiction.
System Visions, January 2015. Graft Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Control Surfaces, July 2013. Small Engine Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Live from the Moon, July 2012. The Tan, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Ground Control, February 2011. Small Engine Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Before We Left Home, December 2010. Cake House, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
I am a historian of technology, writer, editor, and artist. My historical research focuses on the cultural and environmetal history of American spaceflight in the mid-twentieth century. I am also an expert on the history of women and gender in science broadly, and the co-founder and co-editor in cheif of Lady Science magazine. My artistic work, across drawing, printmaking, painting, and speculative fiction, explores the role of the military industrial complex in American cultural life.
email: art.annareser@gmail.com
social: @annareser.bksy.social