Writing

Op-eds and other public writing

• “There’s Something Fishy about U.S.-Canada Trade Wars,” The Atlantic online, 14 June 2018
• “The Shady History of Big Sugar,” op-ed in The New York Times, 17 September 2016

Pieces for Bunk

• “Zones of Doubt,” 2 October 2018.
• “The Sugar Tramp,” 10 January 2018.
• “The Other End of the Telescope,” 24 November 2017.
• “When Science Was Big,” 19 October 2017.

Peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters

• “Who’s Afraid of the Dark Sugar?” in Acquired Tastes: Stories About the Origins of Modern Food, ed. Benjamin R. Cohen, Michael S. Kideckel, and Anna Zeide (MIT Press, 2021), https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262542913/acquired-tastes/.
• (co-authored with Dr. Leo Anthony Celi and Dr. Aaron Stupple) “The Reproducibility Crisis in the Age of Digital Medicine,” npj Digital Medicine, 29 January 2019, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41746-019-0079-z
• “Sugar Machines and the Fragile Infrastructure of Commodities in the Nineteenth Century,” Osiris 33 (2018), https://doi.org/10.1086/699234 or click here to download
• “The Limits of Chemical Control in the Caribbean Sugar Factory,” Radical History Review 127 (January 2017), http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/01636545-3690858 or click here to download
• “Science, Commodities, and Corruption in the Gilded Age”, Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (July 2016), http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1537781416000128 or click here to download
• “Keynesian Eugenics and the Goodness of the World”, Journal of British Studies (July 2016), http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2016.56 or click here to download

Other journal articles

• “Inventing Purity in the Atlantic Sugar World, 1860-1930”, Enterprise and Society (December 2015), http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/eso.2015.74 or click here to download
• “‘A Doubt is At Best an Unsafe Standard’: Measuring Sugar in the Early Bureau of Standards,” NIST Journal of Research 112, no. 1 (January 2007), http://dx.doi.org/10.6028/jres.112.004

Please contact me if you don’t have access to any of these articles.

Blogging

I also wrote for the group blog American Science. You can see all my posts for that site, and I also often compiled our weekly links.

Dissertation

My dissertation is available for viewing in full via DSpace@MIT.