“‘That Vast Quantity of Laudanum I Have Been Known to Take’: Globalization, Empire, and the Performance of Addiction in the Eighteenth Century,” English Language Notes vol. 60, no. 1 (2022).

“Psalmanazar’s Memoirs (1764) index the changing social and cultural roles of opiates and the concept of addiction in eighteenth-century Europe and beyond.”

“Where There’s Smoke, There’s Fire: Pyric Technologies and African Pipes in the Early Modern World,” in Osiris vol. 27 (2022).

“Early modern smokers (and their critics) grappled with the question of how pipes and other ‘pyric technologies’ interacted with the body and mind—and with debates about racialized theories of health, long-distance travel, the African slave trade, and the translatability of knowledge and habits.”

“The Failed Globalization of Psychedelic Drugs in the Early Modern World,” in The Historical Journal (2022), 65, 12–29.

“This article reassesses what has been called ‘the puzzle of distribution’: why did some drugs rapidly emerge as global consumer goods in the era of the Columbian Exchange, whereas others remained restricted to regional centres of usage?”

“Semedo’s sixteen secrets: Tracing pharmaceutical networks in the Portuguese tropics.” in Paula Findlen, ed. Empires of Knowledge: Scientific Networks in the Early Modern World (Routledge, 2018).

“By applying a long-standing European culture of medical secrecy to non- European remedies and natural knowledge, figures like Semedo helped initiate the global pharmaceutical trade.”

“Empires on Drugs: Pharmaceutical Go-Betweens and the Anglo-Portuguese Alliance,” in Cañizares-Esguerra, ed. Entangled Empires: The Anglo-Iberian Atlantic (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018).

“As they exchanged pharmaceutical knowledge and materials, the merchants, healers, and cultivators in the Portuguese Empire established important contacts with networks of natural philosophers, including the Royal Society of London.”

“Drugs and Early Modernity.” Published in History Compass, April, 2017.

“Fundamental features of the early modern Atlantic – like the slave trade, the rise of experimental science and long-distance commerce, and the proliferation of religious confessions – were transnational in character. This essay surveys recent work in the field, emphasizing emerging scholarship on the hybrid nature of the Atlantic world.”

“The Elks Are Our Horses”: Animals and Domestication in the New France Borderlands.” Published in The Journal of Early American History, Winter, 2013.

“Domesticated animals – and the social practices that accompanied them – were central both to the ‘civilizing mission’ of colonizers and to indigenous American resistance. This paper examines these themes within the context of the Great Lakes and Upper Mississippi region between 1670 and 1730.”

“No Man Is an Island: Early Modern Globalization, Knowledge Networks, and George Psalmanazar’s Formosa. Published in The Journal of Early Modern History, Fall, 2013.

“Although Psalmanazar was a fraud, his inventions about the island of Formosa circulated widely in different languages, nations, and inscriptive contexts. The divergence between Psalmanazar’s personal credibility and the longevity of his invented acts sheds light on the nature of evidence and information networks in early modern globalization.”

“Hybrid Atlantics: Future Directions for the History of the Atlantic World” in History Compass, Summer, 2013 (co-author: Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra).

“Fundamental features of the early modern Atlantic – like the slave trade, the rise of experimental science and long-distance commerce, and the proliferation of religious confessions – were transnational in character. This essay surveys recent work in the field, emphasizing emerging scholarship on the hybrid nature of the Atlantic world.”

“Portugal, Early Modern Globalization and the Origins of the Global Drug Trade.” Published in Perspectives on Europe, Spring, 2012.

“The slaves, merchants and mariners of the Portuguese imperial world played a key role in bringing tea to Britain, coffee to Brazil, and chili peppers to India.”