Peter Sachs Collopy: On California

Major Works

• 📖 Passing in the Hallway: Art and Technology at Caltech, 1968–1972, Crossing Over: Art and Science at Caltech, 1920–2020 (Caltech Library), 2024
• 📘 Crossing Over: Art and Science at Caltech, 1920–2020 [introduction] (Caltech Library), exhibition catalog, with Claudia Bohn-Spector, 2024
• 📖 “Video Is as Powerful as LSD”: Electronics and Psychedelics as Technologies of Consciousness [Spanish excerpt], Expanding Mindscapes: A Global History of Psychedelics (MIT Press), 2023
• 📺 Iterating Infrastructure from High Volts to X-Rays to Nuclear Physics: Early Caltech Science in the Archives, Caltech Physics Colloquium, 2022
• 📺 Sitting Down with Uncomfortable Things in the Caltech Archives, with students, postdocs, and Maura Dykstra, Caltech, 2020
• 📺 Becoming Caltech, 1910–1930: Presentations from the Archives, with Heidi Aspaturian, Judith Goodstein, Loma Karklins, and Elisa Piccio, Caltech, 2020
• 🎓 The Revolution Will Be Videotaped: Making a Technology of Consciousness in the Long 1960s, dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 2015

Secondary Projects

• 📺 Joseph Gordon-Levitt Explores Where Film & Science Collide in LA, with Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Maximillian Stenström, and Hiatt Woods, Architectural Digest, 2026
• 📚 Electrifying Los Angeles, syllabus, with Jennifer Jahner, California Institute of Technology, 2026
• 📺 The Beckmans at Caltech, 1923–1939, Beckman Foundation, 2025
• 📺 Art and Science at Caltech: Four Histories, with Soraya de Chadarevian, Lois Rosson, Brian R. Jacobson, and Christopher Hawthorne, Caltech, 2024
• 🖼️ Crossing Over: Art and Science at Caltech, 1920–2020, with Claudia Bohn-Spector, Caltech, 2024
• 📺 Behind the Book: Escape from Earth, with Erik Conway and Fraser MacDonald, Caltech, 2022
• 📺 Caltech’s House of Lightning, with Loma Karklins, Caltech, 2020
• 📄 Ready, Set, Spark, Caltech Magazine, 2020
• 📺 From High Volts to High Energy Physics, Caltech, 2020
• 📺 Influenza Comes to Throop, Caltech, 2020
• 🖼️ Becoming Caltech: Building a Research Community, 1910–1930, with Heidi Aspaturian, Loma Karklins, and Elisa Piccio, Caltech, 2020
• 📄 When Caltech Was Throop University, ICW Blog, 2017