HAYLEY BIRSS

About me
I am an early-career scholar, graphic designer, and grew up on the internet.
I have a brain built for the creative synthesis of complex stories—whether academic, political, or corporate.
My academic work seeks to construct a genealogy of 'green' technologies. I believe that western climate mitigation strategies may risk perpetuating capitalist and colonial logic dating back to the development of New World plantations and the enclosure of the British commons. More broadly, I seek to understand technoscience’s precarious relationship with the planet and its role in spurring the climate crisis.
I also work in graphic design, you can find my work here. Before my graduate career, I worked in the agriculture technology start-up space and outdoor education.
Education


Doctoral Student
Committee on the Conceptual & Historical Studies of Science
Master's of Arts | 2023
Institute for the History & Philosophy of Science & Technology

Academic Writing
Birss, Hayley. 2025. “Tamar Novick, Milk and Honey: Technologies of Plenty in the Making of a Holy Land, Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2023.” History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 47 (1): 1–3. doi.org/10.1007/s40656-025-00662-w.
Birss, Hayley. 2024. “Mapping the Dynamics of the Vertical Farm: A Biopolitical Epistemology of Valuation.” Social Epistemology, 1–11. doi:10.1080/02691728.2024.2342854.