Writing

 

New Names for Very Old Ideas: Theosophy and Vitalism in Algernon Blackwood’s ‘The Man Whom the Trees Loved,’” Harvard University’s CSWR Thinking with Plants and Fungi Blog, April 2025

“Who to Blame for Early Modern Climate Change?” History Today, Vol. 75 No. 2, February 2025

“What can seventeenth-century sources teach us about living with climate change?” for the OUP blog, July 2024.

“The King of the Cats,” in Hellebore #11: The Animal Issue. 2024.

"Du Bois Between Two Worlds: The Magical Sources of The Souls of Black Folk." Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft 18, no. 1, 2023.

“‘We Are All Americans’: Religion, Race, and Environment in Crèvecoeur’s “What is an American?” (1782), American Religion. Vol 3, No. 2, 2022.

The Night Side of Nature: Environmental Meanings of the Modern ParanormalJournal for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture. Vol 15, no. 2, 2021.

“Environmental Awareness and Pedagogical Practice” Classroom Ecologies, Correspondences: A Forum for the Environment. Rice Center for Environmental Studies. July 2021.

“Finding Bigfoot: The Anthropological Machine and the Generation of Monsters” in Religion, Culture, and the Monstrous: Of Gods and Monsters. eds. Joseph Laycock and Natasha Mikles (Lexington Books: 2021)

‘Can Ancient ‘Heresies’ Really Help Us Understand American Politics?’ The Society for U.S. Intellectual History, Nov. 2020