Heather Jahrling is a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate specializing in twentieth-century American urban, technological, and carceral history at Princeton University.

In 2021, Heather received her B.A. in History and Science, Technology, and Society (STS) from Colby College, where she studied as a Bixler Scholar and graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. At Colby, Heather received the William J. Wilkinson Memorial History Award and the Science, Technology and Society Scholars Award for her two honors theses: "Tunnel Vision: Politics of the New York, Delhi, and Moscow Metro Systems" and "Heroes and Handmaids: Gendered Space Exploration in Cold War America."

Heather is currently conducting research on the intersections of Cold War civil defense and urban crisis. On the weekends, she serves as a Museum Interpreter at the Historical Society of Princeton.