Publications
Books
Smell Detectives: An Olfactory History of Nineteenth-Century Urban America (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2017).
Lament of the Albany Brewers: After the Verdict in the Libel Case of Taylor vs. Delavan, broadside ca. 1840. Courtesy American Antiquarian Society.
Articles & Chapters
“A Buried River, An Emerging Crisis, A Cumulative Tale,” Rethinking History 26, no. 2 (2022): 119-147.
“Collaborative Dissent: Noses as Shared Instruments in the Nineteenth-Century Fight for Public Health,” Engaging Science, Technology, and Society 8, no. 1 (2022): 72-86.
In conversation with William Tullett, Inger Leemens, Hsuan Hsu, Stephanie Weisman, Cecilia Bembibre, Duane Jethro, Anna Chen, Xuelei Huang, Jorge Otero-Pailos, and Mark Bradley, “Smell, History, and Heritage,” The American Historical Review 127, no. 1 (March 2022): 261-309.
"‘Health is Wealth’: Valuing Health in the Nineteenth-Century United States,” Journal of Social History, 54, no. 3 (Spring 2021): 775-798.
Co-authored with Kara Murphy Schlichting, “Invisible Inequalities: Persistent Health Threats in the Urban Built Environment,” Journal for the History of Environment and Society, 5 (2020): 159-170.
Co-authored with Kristoffer Whitney, "Introduction: Counting on Nature," Science as Culture 26, no. 1 (2017): 1-10.
"Preserving the Unpleasant: Sources, Methods, and Conjectures for Odors at Historic Sites," Future Anterior 13, no. 2 (Winter 2016): 22-31.
"Navigating by Nose: Stench Nuisance and the Urban Environment, 1840-1880," Journal of Urban History 42, no. 4 (2016): 753-771.
Public Writing
“Revisiting a 19th Century Medical Idea Could Help Address Covid-19,” Washington Post, April 21, 2021.
“Public Health isn’t the Enemy of Economic Well-Being,” Washington Post, April 24, 2020.
“Fighting Disease with Smell: ‘Disinfection’ during the Civil War,” National Museum of Civil War Medicine blog post, October 1, 2019.
“The Case of the Locked (and Airless) Room,” illumiNation 2 (2018-2019): 14.
"The Smell Detectives," Chemical Heritage 29, no. 2 (Summer 2011): 32-36.
Book Reviews
Review of Taking the Land to Make the City: A Bicoastal History of North America by Mary Ryan, Journal of Civil War History, 11, no. 1 (2021): 114-116.
"Imagining Pigs in Manhattan," Review of Taming Manhattan: Environmental Battles in the Antebellum City by Catherine McNeur, H-Environment Roundtable Reviews 6, no. 3 (2016): 9-12.
Review of The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege by Mark M. Smith, Journal of Southern History 81, no. 4 (2015): 993-994.
Review of Toxic Airs: Body, Place, Planet in Historical Perspective edited by James Fleming and Ann Johnson, Bulletin of the History of Chemistry 39, no. 4 (2014): 168-170.
Review of American Sunshine: Diseases of Darkness and the Quest for Natural Light by Daniel Freund, Chemical Heritage 31, no. 3 (Fall 2013/Winter 2014): 47.