Academic publications

For PDFs of my academic journal articles and book chapters, click here.

Journalism & essays

For links to some of my writing for general audiences, click here


Blog posts

In addition to the articles above, I’ve written approximately 100 blog posts between 2009 and the present.

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My history blog Res Obscura (2009-2020) was themed around globalization, drugs, medicine and science, especially in the 1500-1800 period. It was featured on Radio New Zealand and Slate’s Culture Gabfest.

Read all Res Obscura posts here.
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The Appendix (2012-2015) was an online journal of experimental and narrative history that I co-founded along with Christopher Heaney, Felipe Cruz, and Brian Jones.

Read all Appendix articles and posts here.

Image credt: detail from the “apocalypse” section of Hans Memling’s St. John Alterpiece (1479).