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Essays

Here be Black Holes’ in Aeon Magazine (2020).

‘Cetacean Fight-Scene’, in A Field Guide to Curiosity: A Mark Dion Project, pp. 48-9.

Blog posts

Collecting the world in seventeenth-century London, The Collation Blog, Folger Library.

Re-Inventing the Human in the Age of Exploration, Fifteen Eighty-Four Blog, Cambridge University Press.

Interviews and announcements

What I’m Reading: An Interview with Cultural Historian Surekha Davies’, History News Network, with Erik Moshe (2019).

Western Connecticut State University, prize announcements (2017)