Refereed Articles

“Coyotes, Cougars, Californians: Views on Changing Animal Relations at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County,” Animal History 1, no. 3 (August 2025), 38-64.

“Of Dinosaurs and Intergenerational Culture Wars: Dinomania, Nostalgia, and the ‘Missionary Lizards’ of Young Earth Creationism,” Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 49, no. 3-4  (June 2024), 389-409.

“Pleistocene Park, and Other Designs on Deep Time in the Interwar United States,” Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science 77, no. 1 (Feb. 2023), 169-190.

“Out of Time at the La Brea Tar Pits: People and Other Animals in a Time Capsule of Ice Age Los Angeles," Museum & Society 20, no. 1 (June 2022), 71-88.

“A Discourse with Deep Time: The Extinct Animals of Crystal Palace Park as Heritage Artefacts.” Science Museum Group Journal 11 (Spring 2019).

Public Scholarship & Creative Nonfiction (Selected)

“Cry, Wolf,” Germinate: Environmental History Review, December 17, 2025.

“To Become a Fossil,” The Rumpus, December 5, 2025.

“A Postcard from the Festival of Monsters,” Contingent Magazine, October 22, 2025.

“Nature Red (40) in Tooth and Claw” (a review of Jurassic World: Rebirth), Los Angeles Review of Books, August 16, 2025.

“Troubling Times at the Tar Pits: Mark Dion’s Excavations Amidst Other Historical Mischiefs,” Extinct: The Philosophy of Palaeontology Blog, July 10, 2025.

“Archival Absence and Taxonomic Happenstance,” Thinking with Moss, an NEH-funded project between New York University and the New York Botanical Garden, 2024.

Book Reviews

Review of Spirit Whales and Sloth Tales: Fossils of Washington State, by Elizabeth A. Nesbitt and David B. Williams, H-Environment. (October 2024).

Review of Assembling the Dinosaur: Fossil Hunters, Tycoons, and the Making of a Spectacle, by Lukas Rieppel, H-Environment Roundtable 14, no. 3 (March 13, 2024), 11-14.

Review of Reimagining Dinosaurs in Late Victorian and Edwardian Literature, by Richard Fallon, Victorian Studies 65, no. 3 (Spring 2024), 540-542.

Review of Merpeople: A Human History, by Vaughn Scribner, History: The Journal of the Historical Association 106, no. 369 (January 2021), 155-157.

Review of Extinction Studies: Stories of Time, Death, and Generations, edited by Deborah Bird Rose, Thom van Dooren, and Matthew Chrulew, Journal of the History of Biology 52, no. 2 (June 2019), 361-363.