ARTICLES & CHAPTERS:
“Vanishing Flies and the Lady Entomologist,” in Jennifer Bonnell and Sean Kheraj, eds., Traces of the Animal Past (University of Calgary Press, 2022).
"The Histories of New York City's Parks," Journal of Planning History 16.2 (Spring 2017): 95-97.
"Parks, People, and Property Values: The Changing Role of Green Spaces in Antebellum Manhattan," Journal of Planning History 16.2 (Spring 2017): 98-111.
"Rooted in History: Portland's Heritage Trees," in University-Community Partnerships, ed. B.D. Wortham-Galvin, Jennifer Allen, and Jacob D. B. Sherman (Greenleaf Press, 2016): 89-98.
“The ‘Swinish Multitude’: Controversies over Hogs in Antebellum New York City,” Journal of Urban History 37.5 (September 2011): 639-660.
ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES:
"Heritage Trees of Portland," The Oregon Encyclopedia (published online April 2017)
“Hogs,” in The Encyclopedia of New York City (ed. Kenneth T. Jackson), 2nd edition. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010.
BOOK & EXHIBIT REVIEWS:
Review of Agrotopias: An American Literary History of Sustainability by Abby L. Goode, American Historical Review (pending publication)
Review of In Union There Is Strength: Philadelphia in the Age of Urban Consolidation by Andrew Heath, Pennsylvania Magazine of History & Biography (pending publication)
“Epidemics of Fear,” Reviews in American History 48.3 (September 2020): 380-385.
Roundtable Review of Seeing Trees: A History of Street Trees in New York City and Berlin by Sonja Dumpelmann, H-Environment Roundtable Reviews 10.2 (January 21, 2020).
Review of The Finest Building in America: The New York Crystal Palace, 1853-1858, by Edwin G. Burrows, History: Review of New Books 47.1 (January 2019): 1-2.
Review or Liquid Capital: Making the Chicago Waterfront, by Joshua A. T. Salzmann, Environmental History 24.1 (January 2019): 214-215.
Review Essay: “A Time to Reap: Environmental History in the Early Republic,” Journal of the Early Republic 38.1 (Spring 2018): 149-155.
Review of Food and the City: Histories of Culture and Cultivation, by Dorotheé Imbert, Buildings and Landscapes 24.2 (Fall 2017): 120-122.
Review of Gowanus: Brooklyn’s Curious Canal, by Joseph Alexiou, American Historical Review (December 2016) 121 (5): 1704-1705.
Review of Success Depends on the Animals: Emigrants, Livestock, and Wild Animals on the Overland Trails, 1840-1869, by Diana L. Ahmad, Oregon Historical Quarterly 117.3 (Fall 2016): 487-488.
Response to Roundtable on Taming Manhattan, H-Environment Roundtable Reviews 6.13 (24 February 2016).
Review of Urban Appetites: Food and Culture in Nineteenth-Century New York, by Cindy Lobel, Agricultural History 90.1 (Winter 2016): 148-149.
Review of Preserving South Street Seaport: The Dream and Reality of a New York Urban Renewal District, by James M. Lindgren, Journal of American History 102.1 (June 2015).
Review of Beyond Nature’s Housekeepers: American Women in Environmental History, by Nancy C. Unger, Pacific Historical Review 83.1 (February 2014): 145-146.
Review of Precious Commodity: Providing Water for America’s Cities, by Martin V. Melosi, Planning Perspectives 27.4 (October 2012).
Review of the exhibit Skin and Bones: Tattoos in the Life of the American Sailor at the Mystic Seaport Museum, Common-place 12.1 (October 2011): http://www.common-place.org/vol-12/no-01/.
Review of Building Power: Architecture and Surveillance in Victorian America, by Anna Vemer Andrzejewski, Louisiana History 51 (Summer 2010): 375-377.
Review of 194X: Architecture, Planning, and Consumer Culture on the American Home Front, by Andrew M. Shanken, Enterprise and Society 11.2 (June 2010): 425-427.
PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP:
“The Mischievous Morris Sisters,” American Heritage 68.8 (December 2023).
“Hidden Figures,” Air Mail, November 2, 2023.
“Catherine McNeur’s Mischievous Creatures,” The Page 99 Test, November 1, 2023.
“This Woman Solved a Cicada Mystery—but Got No Recognition,” Scientific American, May 9, 2021.
"The Tree that Still Grows in Brooklyn, and Almost Everywhere Else," Gotham: A Blog for Scholars of New York City, January 4, 2018.
"One of the First Gentrification Movements -- The Great Piggery War," The New York Post, February 1, 2015.
"Protecting their Pigs: Women and Urban Agriculture in Antebellum Manhattan," Render: Feminist Food and Culture Quarterly Blog, July 28, 2014.
“The Shantytown: Nineteenth-Century Manhattan’s ‘Straggling Suburbs,’” From the Stacks: The New-York Historical Society Library Blog, June 5, 2013.