Writing

In Whose Ruins: Power, Possession, and the Landscapes of American Empire (Scribner, 2022)

Common Phantoms: An American History of Psychic Science (Stanford University Press, 2020).

Also in print:

“Spiritualism’s Shadows: On COVID-19 and False Consolation,” The Yale Review (Fall 2022).

“Echoes down the years: technologies of mediumship and immortality,” in Media Ventriloquism: How Audiovisual Technologies Transform the Voice-Body Relationship, edited by Jaimie Baron, Jennifer Fleeger, and Shannon Wong Lerner (Oxford, 2021).

“Abraham Lincoln, ghost machine,” Full Bleed 3 (Spring 2019).

“Drawing as Instrument, Drawings as Evidence: Capturing Mental Processes with Pencil and Paper,” Medical History 60:03 (2016), 359-387.

“‘Your Whole Effort Has Been to Create Desire’: Reproducing Knowledge and Evading Censorship in the Nineteenth- Century Subscription Press,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 89:3 (2015), 463-490.

Views From the National Forests (Furniture Press, 2014).

“Proving It,” in The Public Domain Review: Selected Essays, Volume I (2014).

Krall Krall (Cars Are Real, 2013).

Online:

“Atmospheric disturbances,” Real Life, November 2020.

“No rest,” Aeon, August 2020.

“Nurses have long known that sick bodies are political,” Teen Vogue, June 10, 2020.

“Perfect Medium,” The Point, April 18, 2017.

“Lofty Only in Sound,” Public Domain Review, April 5, 2017.

“The Civil War Doctor Who Proved Phantom Limb Pain Was Real,” History.com, Nov. 8, 2017.

“Americans Once Avoided the Hospital at All Costs—Until ERs Changed That,” History.com, Oct. 16, 2017.

“In the basement kitchen,” audio segment for Episode 12 of the Undark podcast from MIT, with Jonna McKone, February 2017.