Scholarly Articles

“Why Museums Should Repatriate Fossils,” with Craig Howe, Nature 630, no. 8017 (June 2024): 559–62.

"Earth Science and Extractive Capitalism in the Age of Empire," Handbook of the Historiography of the Earth and Environmental Sciences, Springer, 2024.

"Locating the Central Asiatic Expedition: Epistemic Imperialism in Vertebrate Paleontology," with Yu-Chi Chang, Isis, volume 114, number 4, December 2023.

"How Dinosaurs Became Tyrants of the Prehistoric," Environmental History, Volume 25, Issue 4, October 2020, Pages 774–787.

“Introduction: The Entangled Histories of Science and Capitalism,” with Eugenia Lean and William Deringer, Osiris, Vol. 33, 2018, pp. 1-24.

“Organizing the Marketplace,” Osiris, Vol. 33, 2018, pp. 232-252.

“Hoaxes, Humbugs, and Frauds: Distinguishing Truth from Untruth in Early America,” Journal of the Early Republic, Vol. 38, No. 3, 2018, pp. 501-529.

“Albert Koch’s Hydrarchos Craze: Credibility, Identity, and Authenticity in 19th Century Natural History,” Science Museums in Transition: Cultures of Display in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America, by Carin Berkowitz and Bernard Lightman (eds.), University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017, pp. 139-161.

“Lost Museums,” with Steven Lubar, Ann Daly, and Katherinne Duffy, introduction to a special issue of The Museum History Journal, Vol. 10, No. 1, 2017, pp. 1-14.

“Museums and Botanical Gardens,” A Companion to the History of Science, by Bernard Lightman (ed.). Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, 2016, pp. 238-251.

“Nature,” Political Concepts: A Critical Lexicon, Issue 3.5, summer 2016 (http://www.politicalconcepts.org/).

“Plaster Cast Publishing in 19th Century Paleontology,” History of Science, Vol. 53, No. 4, 2015, pp. 456-491.

“Prospecting for Dinosaurs on the Mining Frontier,” Social Studies of Science, Vol. 45, No. 2, 2015, pp. 161-186.

“In the shadow of phylogenetic uncertainty: The recent diversification of Lysandra butterflies through chromosomal change,” with Gerard Talavera, Valdimir A. Lukhtanov, Naomi E. Pierce, and Roger Vila, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Vol. 69, Issue 3, 2013, pp. 469-478.

“Bringing Dinosaurs Back to Life: Exhibiting Prehistory at the American Museum of Natural History,” Isis, Vol.103, No. 3, 2012, pp. 460-490.