PUBLICATIONS

Books

• The Vanishing Schools of Franklin County: A History of Public Education in Virginia
  with William B. Gibson (University of Virginia Press, 2026).
• Feral Animals in the American South: An Evolutionary History
  (Cambridge University Press, 2016).

Articles and Chapters

• “Lead a Horse to Water: Beach Ponies in the American South and the Cultivation of Ferality,”
  in Animals, Ethics, and Engineering, edited by Rosalyn W. Berne (Jenny Stanford Publishing, 2025).
• “Of Coding and Quality: A Tale about Computational Humanities” 
  with Julia Damerow and Manfred Laubichler. In Computational Humanities, edited by Jessica Marie Johnson, David Mimno, and Lauren Tilton (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2023).
• “Digital Humanities in the Deepfake Era”
  in Debates in the Digital Humanities 2023, edited by Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein (University of Minnesota Press, 2023).
• “War Horses: Equine Perspectives on the Confederacy”
  in Animal Histories of the Civil War Era, edited by Earl J. Hess (Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2021).
• “Harvesting Hogzillas: Feral Pigs and the Engineering Ideal”
  in Nature Remade: Engineering Life from Gene Drives to Gaia, edited by Luis Campos, Michael R. Dietrich, Tiago Saraiva, and Chris Young (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2021).
• “The History of Science and the Science of History: Computational Methods, Algorithms, and the Future of the Field” 
  with Cindy Ermus. Isis 110 (September 2019): 555-566.
• “Computational History and Philosophy of Science” 
  co-edited with Manfred Laubichler and Jane Maienschein. Isis 110 (September 2019): 497-501.
• “The Moonshine Capital of the World: A Visual History of Untaxed Whiskey in Franklin County, Virginia”
  Environmental History 24 (July 2019): 584-596.
• “Biology in the Marvel Cinematic Universe” 
  review essay in Biology & Culture section, Journal of the History of Biology 52 (June 2019): 365-369.
• “Swamp Things: Invasive Species as Environmental Disasters” 
  with Cindy Ermus. In Environmental Disaster in the Gulf South: Two Centuries of Catastrophe, Risk, and Resilience, edited by Cindy Ermus (Baton Rouge, LA: LSU Press, 2018), 103-130.
• “Path to the Present” 
  in Cambridge Handbook on Evolutionary Ethics, edited by Michael Ruse and Robert J. Richards (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2017), 72-86.
• “Beasts of Burden: Feral Burros in the American West” 
  in The Historical Animal, edited by Susan Nance (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2015), 38-53.
• “Sociobiology and Evolutionary Psychology”
  with Michael Ruse. In A Companion to the History of American Science, edited by Georgina Montgomery and Mark Largent (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2015), 252-262.
• “Roots of Multilevel Selection: Concepts of Biological Individuality in the Early Twentieth Century” 
  with Christina L. Kwapich and Martha Lang. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 35 (2013): 505-532.
• “Edward O. Wilson and the Organicist Tradition” 
  Journal of the History of Biology 46 (2013): 599-630.
• “American Gibraltar: Key West during World War II”
  Florida Historical Quarterly 90 (2012): 393-425.

Essays

• “Keeping It Real: Historians in the Deepfake Era”
  AHA Perspectives Daily (May 17, 2021).
• “Data Science and the 3-point Revolution” 
  Age of Revolutions (February 25, 2019).
• “Sounding the Old Wolf Cry” 
  The Bigger Picture: Smithsonian Institution Archives (November 14, 2013).
• “Dog Days at the Zoo, part II” 
  The Bigger Picture: Smithsonian Institution Archives (September 18, 2012).
• “Dog Days at the Zoo, part I” 
  The Bigger Picture: Smithsonian Institution Archives (September 11, 2012).

Digital Projects

• The Vanishing Schools of Franklin County, Virginia
  Funded by Virginia Humanities
• Honest Abe’s Information Emporium
  Funded by the U.S. Department of Education

Museum Exhibits

• The Vanishing Schools of Franklin County, Virginia
  Blue Ridge Institute & Museum, Ferrum College (2023-present)

Book Reviews

• “Closed Seasons: The Transformation of Hunting in the Modern South, by Julia Brock”
  Agricultural History (forthcoming).
• “The Age of Mammals: Nature, Development, and Paleontology in the Long Nineteenth Century, by Chris Mania”
  American Historical Review 130 (March 2025).
• “Charleston Horse Power: Equine Culture in the Palmetto City, by Christina Rae Butler”
  Journal of Southern History 91 (February 2025).
• “Making Machines of Animals: The International Livestock Exposition, by Neal Knapp”
  Journal of the History of Biology 57 (November 2024).
• “The Herds Shot Round the World: Native Breeds and the British Empire, 1800-1900, by Rebecca Woods”
  H-Environment Roundtable Reviews 13 (2023).
• “The Re-Origin of Species: A Second Chance for Extinct Animals, by Torill Kornfeldt”
  Quarterly Review of Biology 94 (December 2019): 446.
• “Wild by Heart: North American Animals Confront Colonization, by Andrea L. Smalley”
  Journal of Southern History 84 (2018): 704-706.
• “Fascist Pigs: Technoscientific Organisms and the History of Fascism, by Tiago Saraiva”
  Journal of the History of Biology 51 (2018): 183-185. 
• “The Runes of Evolution: How the Universe became Self-Aware, by Simon Conway Morris”
  Quarterly Review of Biology 92 (September 2017): 321.
• “Animals as Food: (Re)connecting Production, Processing, Consumption, and Impacts, by Amy Fitzgerald”
  Agricultural History 91 (2017): 133-134.
• “The Readable Darwin: The Origin of Species, edited by Jan A. Pechenik”
  Quarterly Review of Biology 90 (June 2015): 217.
• “On the Frontier of Science: An American Rhetoric of Exploration and Exploitation, by Leah Ceccarelli”
  Quarterly Review of Biology 90 (March 2015): 78-79.