Publications
Personal photograph of the Panama Canal, 2022.
Peer-reviewed publications
Accepted chapter on Senator Robert Dole and energy politics in the Americas for an in-progress book project on the history of environmental politics in the Midwest (forthcoming).
Book chapter in Seapower By Other Means: Naval Contributions to National Objectives Beyond Sea Control, Power Projection, and Traditional Service Missions (2023)
“Suggestions Heard but not Implemented: The Chiriquí Naval Station that Never Was” has appeared in this book on the exercise of maritime power in non-kinetic forms.
Environment and History (2023)
“Scarcity at Summit: The Arc of Environmental Attitudes at a Panamanian Botanical Garden,” An article on a Panamanian botanical garden’s history was released in the “Snapshots” section of this journal.
Garden History (2023)
“An ‘Imaginary Landscape’: Bentham’s Botanical Vision for the Panopticon” has been released in this publication.
World History Connected (2023)
“Catastrophes with Consequences: Anglo-American trans-Oceanic Ambitions and the Failed Franklin and Strain Expeditions” has been accepted for publication.
Diacronie Studi di Storia contemporanea (2023)
“Seeds that could not grow: Jeremy Bentham’s unrealized universal botanical utopias” has appeared in a special issue of this journal titled “The Environment of History.”
Zealos: Studies in the Humanities, Social Sciences, Arts and Design (2023)
“A Petrified Union: Elis’s Search for Family in ‘The Mines of Falun,’” is featured in the inaugural volume of this publication.
Trivium Journal (2022)
“Trapped in the Past: How Thomas Hines Escaped Prison, but not the Confines of Remembrance” has been published in this journal.
Arcadia (2022)
“Poles of Exploration and Exploitation: Olaudah Equiano in the Arctic” has appeared in this online journal.
Eureka Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities (2022)
“How Queen Mother Moore constructed black communities and identity” has appeared in this outlet.
The Latin Americanist (2021)
“Reverse Engineering the Narrative: A.B. Nichols’s Failed Attempt to Amend the Canal Zone’s History” was included in the spring 2021 volume.
Transcultural Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences (2021)
“Larra, el moderno europeo: El Castellano Viejo y la invención del flâneur,” has been featured in this publication.
Book reviews
The Radical Spanish Empire: How Paperwork Politics Remade the New World (Forthcoming)
Will review this monograph for the World History Bulletin.
The Forecast for D-Day And the Weatherman behind Ike's Greatest Gamble (Forthcoming)
Will write on this book for the H-Net Environment section.
In a Sea of Empires: Networks and Crossings in the Revolutionary Caribbean (2022)
Reviewed Jeppe Mulich’s new monograph.
Made in Britain: Nation and Emigration in Nineteenth-Century America (2022)
Reviewed Stephen Tuffnell’s book.
Public essays
Yale Journal of Canadian Studies (Forthcoming)
Will contribute a tribute essay, “Storytime with Prof G.”
Mnemozine (2022)
“On the Edge of Climax: The Marginalization of the Dionysian, and Homosexuality, in C.P. Cavafy’s Their Beginning” has been published in this magazine.
Active History (2022)
“Carving out a Collective Identity” has been published on this site.
Global Maritime History (2022)
“Cruise Line Conquistadors: Discovering the Tamed Tropics” has been released on this platform.
Made By Us Medium (2022)
“Deconstructing dams: what we can learn from the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe” has been showcased on this platform.
Imperial & Global Forum (2022)
“How One South African Poet Reformed the Olympics to Combat Apartheid” has been released on this blog.
Order of Multitudes, Mellon Sawyer Seminar at Yale (2021)
“Building Blocks of Information: Concrete Slabs and the Construction of Knowledge in the Panama Canal Zone” has been released on this platform.
Global History Blog (2021)
“Food for thought: how Walter Millsap offered Toshiko Imamura intellectual nourishment during the deprivations of internment” has been featured on this forum.
SPUR: Scholarship and Practice of Undergraduate Research (2021)
“The History and Future of the Society of Undergraduate Humanities Publications.” SPUR: Scholarship and Practice of Undergraduate Research 4, no. 2 (2021): 48. doi: 10.18833/spur/4/2/14.
Oral History Review (2020)
Wrote an article describing Say and Seal, my podcast that documents life at Yale during COVID-19.
Humanities for All, Blog of the National Humanities Alliance (2020)
Wrote an essay on my work with The Yale Historical Review and the public humanities.
Presentations, Conferences, & Workshops
Conference Presentations:
Annual Conference of the Latin American Studies Association (May 2026)
Presented a paper titled, “Tourism in Transit: Panama and the Making of Mobility since 1977.”
Annual Conference of the American Society for Environmental History (March 2026)
Shared essay titled, “Drafting Development: The Inter-American Geodetic Survey and the Limits of Expertise.”
Annual Conference of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (June 2025)
Gave a lightning talk on my prospectus, titled “Hot and Cold: Environmental Politics in Panamanian and Polar Waters, 1940s to the Present.”
Society for Global Nineteenth-Century Studies World Congress (June 2023)
Presented a paper on competition and cooperation across empires in the search for maritime gateways through the Western Hemisphere during the 1800s.
Midwest Junto Program Annual Conference (March 2023)
Delivered a paper on the history of a Panamanian botanical garden.
Congreso internacional “Comunidades intencionales: utopías concretas en la historia” (October 2021)
Paper accepted on Jeremy Bentham’s plan for a utilitarian utopia at this international gathering of scholars in Madrid. (Could not attend due to scheduling conflict.)
Transnational History Student Organization Conference, “Spectacle and Power in the Transatlantic World” (October 2021)
Spoke at the meeting of this group on Panama and its 1916 Exposición Nacional.
Midwest World History Association Annual Conference (September 2021)
Paper accepted on how cimarrones, or escaped slaves, formed practices of remembering and resistance in colonial Panama. (Could not attend due to scheduling conflict.)
Center for Port and Maritime History Annual Conference (September 2021)
Gave a talk on the hybridic relations among empires and native Panamanians in the port city of Portobelo.
International Postgraduate Port and Maritime Studies Network (August 2021)
Discussed my research on 18th century Panama at the annual conference of this organization.
SECOLAS 2021 (April 2021)
Presented an excerpt of my senior essay, "The Ballad of Ambrose W. Thompson: The Initial Failure but Ultimate Fulfillment of his Manifest Destiny” at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies.
National Conference of Undergraduate Research (April 2021)
My presentation was accepted but I could not attend due to a scheduling conflict.
Yale Research Symposium (October 2020)
Presented an excerpt of “Reverse Engineering the Narrative” at this event.
SECOLAS 2020 (March 2020)
Presented my essay, “Reverse Engineering the Narrative,” among graduate students and professionals, at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies.
Annual Brian Bertoti Innovative Perspectives in History Graduate Conference (March 2020)
Scheduled to present a paper, “The Crowning Jewel of the Canal Fairs” in 2020, but the event was cancelled due to COVID.
Conjuring the Past Conference at Penn State University (February 2020)
Presented Stripping Away the Patina of Nobility, an article on Sir Francis Drake’s time in Panama.
Workshop Contributions:
Colonial Energy Histories Roundtable (September 2026)
Shared an overview of my dissertation in interdisplinary forum.
Roosevelt Institute for American Studies Spring Ph.D. Seminar (June 2026)
Shared “Ink Spills: The Drafting of an American Arctic, 1984-1989” at this interdisciplinary workshop.
Yale Agrarian Studies Program (March 2024 and April 2026)
Discussant for talks by Dr. Philip Wight, University of Alaska, and Dr. Alma Igra, University of Amsterdam
Panelist Presentations:
American Association State and Local History 2022 Conference (November 2022)
Spoke on a panel titled “Plugging into Gen Z: How the Public History Field Can Reach Younger Generations” at this national conference.
National Council for Public History Conference (May 2022)
Presented on a panel titled “Make Way for the Next Gen: Public History in Youth-Led Public Spaces” at this national conference.
The Yale and Slavery Research Project Panel (February 2021)
One of six student leaders chosen by Professor David Blight to discuss Yale’s ties to the legacy of slavery.
Conference Organizing
Yale New Perpsectives in Environmental History Conference (March 2026)
Co-organized conference with over 100 attendees across the northeast. The event showcased the work of early career researchers and contained a keynote panel with Dr. Arunabh Ghosh (Harvard), Dr. Bathsheba Demuth (Brown), and Dr. Laura Martin (Williams) I co-moderated.
Yale-West Point Summit on History (October 2018 & January 2020)
Organized two conferences of the editors at The Yale Historical Reviewand The Report, the undergraduate historical journal at West Point. Planned the itineraries, secured Yale faculty to speak at the event, and led all discussions.