I've published my work in a variety of venues from online blogs and prime essays to university presses. I strive to write for both traditional academic and broader public audiences. 



  • Portrait of a Woman in Silk: Hidden Histories of the British Atlantic World (Yale University Press, 2016)
  • “Producing Empire: The British Empire in Theory and Practice,” in Andrew Shankman, editor, The World of the Revolutionary American Republic: Expansion, Conflict, and the Struggle for a Continent (Routledge Press, 2014)
  • “ ‘This is the Skin of a Whit[e] Man:’ The Materiality of Violence in Sullivan’s Campaign,” in Patrick Spero and Michael Zuckerman, editors, The American Revolution Reborn (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016)

  • “Franklin’s Gown: Portraying the Politics of American Silk,” in “Object Lessons,” Common-Place Vol. 15, no. 1 (October 2014)

  • "Unraveling the Silk Society’s Directions for the Breeding and Management of Silk-Worms," in “Notes on the Text,” Common-Place Vol. 14, no. 1, (October 2013)

  • “General George Washington, Hairdresser” on The Recipes Project (February 2016) at www.recipes.hypotheses.org

  • “Things Colloquial: Material Culture at the 2013 Conference of the Society of Early Americanists,” in The Junto (March 2013) at www.earlyamericanists.com