Writing

Books

Science and Exploration in the Polar Regions, 1773-1918: A History in Primary Sources, co-editor with Daniella McCahey (under contract with Routledge Press)

Articles, Chapters, and Digital Publications

With Paul Gregory Nauert and Andrew Stuhl, “Decarbonizing Towards Justice: Building Community in a Different Way,” for A Historian’s Handbook for Saving the World, Alexandra Hui and Emily Pawley, eds.

“Leisure,” for A Design Lexicon, Glenn Adamson and Rachel Delphia, eds. (forthcoming from the Carnegie Museum of Art)

With Caitlin Kossmann and Catherine Mas, “Science for the Nation: Yale’s Sheffield Scientific School and U.S. Global Power,” for Thinking with Scientific Instruments: Explorations in the Material History of Science and Technology, Paola Bertucci and Alexi Baker, eds. (under contract with Yale University Press)

“Scientific Exploration,” for History and Philosophy of Modern Science: 1750-1900, Erik Peterson and Elise Crull, eds. (under contract with Bloomsbury Press)

“‘Well-Found Ship, Full Equipment, and High Hopes’: Material Culture Studies and the Outfitting of Historic Antarctic Expeditions,” for Things and the Global Antarctic, Maria Ximena Senatore and Daniella McCahey, eds. (under contract with Berghahn Books)

“The benefit of chocolate and cold tea: equipping early British Everest expeditions,” for Other Everests: One Mountain, Many Worlds, Jonathan Westaway, Paul Gilchrist, and Peter H. Hansen, eds. (under contract with Manchester University Press)

With Patrícia Martins Marcos, Sarah Naramore, Myrna Perez Sheldon, Sarah Qidwai, and Kathleen Sheppard, “HSS Virtual Forum: Futures Series,” Isis vol. 122, no. 3 (September 2021), p. 573-581. LINK

“Dress, Image, and Cultural Encounter in the Heroic Age of Polar Exploration,” in Expedition: Fashion from the Extreme, Patricia Mears, ed. (London: Thames & Hudson, 2017), p. 31-56.

If you would like a pdf of this chapter please e-mail me.

“Tool Users: Sun Protection,” Alpinist no. 78 (Summer 2022), p. 28. LINK

“Tool Users: Expedition First Aid Kits,” Alpinist no. 76 (Winter 2022), p. 30.

If you would like pdfs of these articles please e-mail me.

Book Review: Victims of Fashion: Animal Commodities in Victorian Britain. On H-Environment, H-Net Reviews, February 10, 2023. LINK

Book Review: Arctic: Culture and Climate. In West 86th vol. 12, no. 2 (Fall-Winter 2021), p. 364-366. LINK

Book Review: The Astronomer’s Chair: A Visual and Cultural History. On H-Material Culture, H-Net Reviews, May 22, 2022. LINK

Book Review: Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies. Volume 37. In Isis vol. 122, no. 3 (September 2021), p. 630-631. LINK

Book Review: Higher and Colder: A History of Extreme Physiology and Exploration. In Journal of Historical Geography vol. 71 (January 2021), p. 114-115. LINK

Book Review: North Pole: Nature and Culture. In Cultural Geographies vol. 27, no. 4 (October 2020), p. 683-684. LINK

Book Review: Pacific Exploration: Voyages of Discovery from Captain Cook’s Endeavour to the Beagle. On Global Maritime History, August 31, 2020. LINK

Book Review: Arctic Cinemas and the Documentary Ethos. On H-Environment, H-Net Reviews, January 3, 2020. LINK

Museum Exhibition Review: “The Story Box,” at the Bard Graduate Center. In History of Anthropology Review, June 21, 2019. LINK

Book Review: Starvation Shore. In Polar Record vol. 55, no. 3 (May 2019), p. 196-197. LINK

Museum Exhibition Review: “Exhibitionism: 50 Years of the Museum at FIT,” at the Museum at FIT. On Journal of the History of Ideas blog, April 24, 2019. LINK

TV Review: “Fortitude.” In Endeavour vol. 43, no. 1-2 (June 2019), p. 40-41. LINK

Museum Exhibition Review: “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination,” at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. On Journal of the History of Ideas blog, July 16, 2018. LINK

Book Review: The World and All the Things Upon It: Native Hawaiian Geographies of Exploration. In Endeavour vol. 41, no. 3 (September 2017), p. 73. LINK

““The World’s Morgue”: Critiquing Arctic Exploration in the Pages of Puck,” NiCHE/Network in Canadian History & Environment, August 25, 2022. LINK

“Extremely Clever and Ingenious,” Material Intelligence vol. 1, no. 3 (Rubber), September 2022. LINK

“Endurance,” in “Travelling Companions” digital exhibition catalogue, curated by Ro Spankie and edited by Fay Ballard and Judy Goldhill for CRASSH (Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities) at the University of Cambridge, 2021. LINK

“Learning from Things: Unpacking a Gear Catalogue from the American Geographical Society Library,” Historical Geography Research Group Newsletter, summer 2021. LINK

“‘Are There Even People There?’ Re-Reading Adrian Howkins and Grappling with ‘Going There,’” Environmental History Now, July 16, 2020. LINK / Cross-posted on NiCHE/Network in Canadian History & Environment, August 10, 2021. LINK

“Endurance,” part of the online exhibition “Travelling Companions - Objects of the Week,” held in conjunction with “Travelling Companions” exhibition, CRASSH (Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities) at the University of Cambridge, March 24, 2020. LINK

“‘The Fierce Joy of Conquering the Wilderness’: Buying into Exploration in the Hagley Collections,” Hagley Museum and Library Research Blog, November 18, 2019. LINK

“Hosting a Digital or NCN Conference: Reflections and Best Practices, Parts I and II,” Global Maritime History, September 9 and 12, 2019. LINK TO PART I and LINK TO PART 2

With Marco Ramos and Barbara Pohl, “History, Science, Justice,” in the special issue “Religion/Science/Race,” Cosmologics, Fall 2018. LINK

“Surviving the Qualifying Exam, Part II: Sitting Down and Studying,” Global Maritime History, April 5, 2018. LINK

“Surviving the Qualifying Exam, Part I: Getting Started,” Global Maritime History, March 1, 2018. LINK

“An ‘Extreme Turn’? Some Thoughts on Material Culture, Exploration, and Interdisciplinary Directions,” Journal of the History of Ideas blog, January 15, 2018. LINK

“Polar Explorers and Their Clothes,” Museum of the Fashion Institute of Technology exhibition blog for “Expedition: Fashion from the Extreme,” November 1, 2017. LINK

“Introduction” and “More than Local Arrangements: How Conference Logistics Can Speak to Values,” in the series “Critical Histories, Activist Futures,” Somatosphere, September 11 and 12, 2017. LINK to “Introduction” and LINK to “More than Local Arrangements”

“Guest Post: Return of the Sextant,” AmericanScience blog, November 17, 2015. LINK

“Object of the Month: Bag Fragment,” Bard Graduate Center Gallery: Object of the Month online feature, May 2014. LINK

“Object of the Month: Ordinary Safety Pin, ca. 1935,” Bard Graduate Center Gallery: Object of the Month online feature, May 2013. LINK

In 2024 I became the Associate Editor of the peer-reviewed history and philosophy of science journal Endeavour, after more than two years as a member of the advisory board for the journal’s “In Vivo” section. In my current role, I oversee “In Vivo” (a section focused on commentary on current events, narrative histories, object case studies, and other forward-thinking and nontraditional content related to the history of science), as well as editing select special issues and working with the editor-in-chief to oversee general editorial direction for the journal.

Since 2020, I’ve been a member of the editorial board of the History of Anthropology Review (HAR), and in November of 2022 was promoted to Managing Editor for News. Founded in 1973, HAR is “a venue for publication and conversation on the many histories of the discipline of anthropology,” and has been an open access web publication since 2016. I regularly create content about timely news stories and events related to the history of anthropology, update HAR’s Twitter account, edit the writing of contributing authors, and supervise five associate editors on the News team.

From 2019 to 2022, I was a graduate research assistant for “Order of Multitudes,” an interdisciplinary seminar at Yale University supported by the Mellon Foundation. As part of my work I created “conversations” with almost twenty scholars, artists, curators, and activists whose work relates to the themes of the seminar; conducting and editing interviews with them for the “Order of Multitudes” website. You can find all of them on the website. Some of my recent favorites include conversations with historians of science Prof. Sam Redman and Prof. Elaine Ayers, curator and anthropologist Prof. Monique Scott, curator and lawyer Armando Perla, and artists Regan Rosburg and Heddi Siebel.

In late 2019 and early 2020, I served as a guest editor for the Journal of the History of Ideas blog. With Cynthia Houng and Sarah C. Dunstan, I edited and curated a special series series of six articles and podcasts on the theme of “Media of History.”

In 2018, Tess Lanzarotta and I co-edited a series of papers for Somatosphere titled “Critical Histories, Activist Futures.” The papers highlight issues of race, diversity, and activism within academic research and pedagogy and are drawn from a conference, titled "Critical Histories, Activist Futures: Science, Medicine, and Racial Violence," which took place at Yale University on February 24-25, 2017.

Since 2017, I’ve been a Contributing Editor for Global Maritime History, a website that offers those interested in maritime history, from all backgrounds and levels of interest, “ a source of information, a route to reach a wide audience for their written work, and a place for congenial discussion.” I regularly create content about upcoming events related to maritime history, broadly conceived and have contributed original written content. With Kelsey Power, I co-organized Global Maritime History’s first digital conference, on “Maritime Toxic Masculinity,” in April of 2019.

I’ve served as a peer reviewer for journals including the British Journal for the History of Science, The Geographical Journal, Fashion Studies, and Arcadia: Explorations in Environmental History, and as a manuscript reviewer for University of Alaska Press.