Publications

BOOK CHAPTERS

“Consuming the South Pacific: Charles Warren Stoddard, Foreign Travel, and the Limits of American Cosmopolitanism,” in Culture and Civilization, Vol. 5, Cosmopolitanism and the Global Polity, ed. Gabriel R. Ricci (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2013), pp. 209-224.

“‘Something as Yet Unfinished’: Carl Becker and the Liberal Paradox,” in Religion and Public Life, Vol. 38, Politics in Theology, ed. Gabriel R. Ricci (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2012), pp. 1-14.

ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES

“Mexican War,” in Race and Ethnicity in America, 4 vols., ed. Russell Lawson and Ben Lawson (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, forthcoming 2019).

“Fake News,” in Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories in American History, 2 vols., ed. Jeffrey B. Webb and Christopher Fee (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, forthcoming 2018).

“Bohemian Grove,” in Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories in American History, 2 vols., ed. Jeffrey B. Webb and Christopher Fee (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, forthcoming 2018).

“San Francisco,” in The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Cultural and Intellectual History, 2 vols., ed. Joan Shelley Rubin, Scott E. Casper, and Paul S. Boyer (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013), 2:349-352.

BOOK REVIEWS

Chicago Renaissance: Literature and Art in the Midwest Metropolis, by Liesl Olson, Popular Culture Studies Journal (forthcoming, 2019).

Empire and Liberty: The Civil War and the West, ed. by Virginia Scharff, Essays in History 58 (2016).

 Arresting Dress: Cross-Dressing, Law, and Fascination in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco, by Clare Sears, Journal of American Studies 50 (February 2016).

 Pranksters: Making Mischief in the Modern World, by Kembrew McLeod, Journal of Popular Culture 48 (December 2016).

 Freedom’s Frontier: California and the Struggle over Unfree Labor, Emancipation, and Reconstruction, by Stacey L. Smith, Essays in History 56 (2014).

OTHER WRITINGS

“‘The Fall of a Sparrow’: The (Un)timely Death of Elmer Ellsworth and the Coming of the Civil War,” Gettysburg College Journal of the Civil War Era 1 (2010), pp. 44-52.