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Academic Publications

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles:

“Writing a ‘Wonderland’ of Science: Child-Authored Periodicals at the Brooklyn Children’s Museum, 1936-1946,” under consideration at American Periodicals.

“Picturing Nature and Childhood at the American Museum of Natural History and the Brooklyn Children’s Museum, 1899-1930,” Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, Vol. 3, No. 4 (Fall 2011), 434-469.

“Reclaiming the Machine: An Introductory Look at Steampunk in Everyday Practice,” Journal of Neo-Victorian Studies 1:1 (Autumn 2008), 138-163.

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Book Chapters:

“Ronnie Vinikoff,” “James McMurtry” (both with Lisa Powell), oral histories in The Republic of Barbecue: Stories Beyond the Brisket, a project carried out by UT/Austin American Studies graduate students and published by the University of Texas Press in 2009.

“Environmental Health, Biological Risk, and Medical Display: The Individualist Etiologies of BODY WORLDS”,  in The Anatomy of Body Worlds: Critical Essays on the Plastinated Cadavers of Gunther von Hagens, ed. Thora Jespersen et. al (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2008), 55-65.

“Sled Dogs of the American North: On Masculinity, Whiteness, and Human Freedom”, in Animals and Agency, ed. Sarah MacFarland and Ryan Hediger (Leiden: Brill Academic, 2009), 129-156.

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Encyclopedia Entry:

“Theodore Roethke,” in Modern American Environmentalists: A Biographical Encyclopedia, ed. G.A. Cevasco (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), 421-426.

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Review Publications:

“Review: Sally Kohlstedt, Teaching Children Science: Hands-On Nature Study in North America, 1890-1930.” Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, Vol. 3, No. 4 (Fall 2011), 518-520.

“Review: Edward Johnson and Michael Mappin, eds., Environmental Education and Advocacy: Changing Perspectives of Ecology and Education“. Green Theory & Praxis: The Journal of Ecopedagogy, Vol. 5, No. 1 (2009), 280-282.

“Review: Nelson Lichtenstein, ed.,  American Capitalism: Social Thought and Political Economy in the Twentieth Century“. E3W Review of Books, Vol. 9 (Spring 2009), 38-39.

“Review: Documentary Film: King Corn.” Green Theory & Praxis: The Journal of Ecopedagogy, Vol. 4, No. 1 (2008), 122-124.

“Review: Kenneth Foote, Shadowed Ground: America’s Landscapes of Violence and Tragedy“. E3W Review of Books, Vol. 6 (Spring 2006), 47-48.