Publications
Peer-Reviewed:
2023
“‘A Monkey in Every Home’: Henry Trefflich and the Twentieth-Century Exotic Animal Trade in America.” Forthcoming (2023) in edited collection, Colonial Dimensions of the Global Wildlife Trade, part of a book series published by the Network for Provenance Research of Lower Saxony, Germany.
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2021
“‘Make the Desert Blossom Like the Rose’: Animal Acclimatization, Settler Colonialism, and the Construction of Oregon’s Nature.” Oregon Historical Quarterly, 122:3 (Fall 2021): 214-249. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5403/oregonhistq.122.3.0214
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* Winner of the 2022 Fishel-Calhoun Article Prize from the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.
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Public History:
2023
“Fish-Fanciers: William T. Innes, Home Aquaria, and the Rise of Fish as Pets in Modern America.” American Philosophical Society Blog. July 10, 2023.
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2021
“Dispatches from ‘Anthropoid Ellis Island’: New York City’s More-Than-Human-History.” The Gotham Center for New York City History Blog. March 25, 2021.
https://www.gothamcenter.org/blog/dispatches-from-anthropoid-ellis-island
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Book Reviews:
2023
Review of Andrea L. Smalley with Henry M. Reeves, The Market in Birds: Commercial Hunting, Conservation, and the Origins of Wildlife Consumerism, 1850-1920. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 2022. Forthcoming in South Dakota History, 2023.
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2022
Review of Jeremy Zallen, American Lucifers: The Dark History of Artificial Light, 1750- 1865. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019. In Environment and History Vol. 29, 1 (2023): 161-162.
https://doi.org/10.3197/096734023X16702350656906
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2022
Review of Ariel Ron, Grassroots Leviathan: Agricultural Reform and the Rural North in the Slaveholding Republic. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020. In Agricultural History Vol. 96, 1-2 (2022): 291-293. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-9634673
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2022
Review of Steven Turner, The Science of James Smithson: Discoveries from the Smithsonian Founder. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books, 2020. In Isis Vol. 113, 2 (2022): 445-446. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/719715
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2021
Review of David J. Nelson, How the New Deal Built Florida Tourism: The Civilian Conservation Corps and State Parks. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2019. Journal of Tourism History Vol. 13, 1 (2021): 101-103. https://doi.org/10.1080/1755182X.2021.1890352