PUBLICATIONS
HistoryToday's "Head to Head" roundtable: "Has a War on Drugs Ever Been Won?" Participant, Sept. 9, 2022
"Lesson Plan: Primary Documents as Material Culture: Encouraging Students to See a Source from All Sides," The Journal of the Early Republic's Panorama blog, Aug. 17, 2022
"Losing 'sorrow in stupefaction': American Women's Opiate Dependency before 1900," NursingClio.com, Aug. 18, 2022
"Was Edgar Allan Poe a Habitual Opium Eater?" Commonplace, February 2022
“Opium” entry in Alcohol and Drugs in North America: A Historical Encyclopedia", eds. David Fahey and Jon Miller (ABC-CLIO), 2010
“The World by Gaslight: Urban-gothic Literature and Moral Reform in New York City, 1845–1860” in American Nineteenth-Century History (vol. 10, no. 2, June 2009)
“Whisper to him the word “India”’: Trans-Atlantic Critics and American Slavery, 1830–1860” in the Journal of the Early Republic (vol. 28, Fall 2008)
“The Trade-Off: Chinese Opium Traders and Antebellum Reform in the United States, 1815–1860” in Drugs and Empires: Essays in Modern Imperialism and Intoxication, c. 1500–c. 1930, eds. James H. Mills and Patricia Barton (Palgrave, 2007)
FELLOWSHIPS
Ferenc Gyorgyey Research Travel Grant, Yale University, 2012
Conducted research on habitual opiate use in early America at the Historical Library of Yale’s Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library
Charles Donald O’Malley Short-Term Research Fellowship, UCLA, 2009
Conducted research on opium use in nineteenth-century America at UCLA’s Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library
Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship, Massachusetts Historical Society, 2009
Conducted research on the impact of opium on colonial and Early Republic New England
William H. Helfand Fellowship, Library Company of Philadelphia and Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 2008
Conducted research at the two institutions on the impact of opium on early America