Writings

To access my full CV, click here.

A few of my articles and book chapters are available open access:

The Distinctiveness of the Society of Jesus’s Mission in Pedro de Ribadeneyra’s Historia Ecclesiastica Del Scisma Del Reyno de Inglaterra (1588),” in Exploring Jesuit Distinctiveness: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Ways of Proceeding within the Society of Jesus, ed. Robert Aleksander Maryks (Leiden: Brill, 2016), 175–88.

John Howard’s Contagious Institutions,” Harvard Library Bulletin (2021)

Sums Theological: Doing Theology with the London Bills of Mortality, 1603–1666,” Church History 90, no. 4 (December 2021).

Some of my other writing is also available online:

“Not Only in America: On Benjamin D. Weber’s American Purgatory,” for Los Angeles Review of Books (October 28, 2023)

Seventeenth-Century Supermax: The Origins of Solitary Confinement,” for Solitary Watch (September 25, 2023)

Why prisoner abuse and deprivation persists in America,” for The Washington Post’s Made by History (March 7, 2019)

The Paranoid Style in Radical History,” for History Workshop Online (March 18, 2020)

A review of Tamar Herzig’s A Convert’s Tale: Art, Crime, and Jewish Apostasy in Renaissance Italy for the blog of the George L. Mosse Program in History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (December 15, 2020)

Plus a great many blog posts for JHI Blog between 2016 and 2019.