Independent Work

  • Imagining a New Eden in the Nuclear West

    Arcadia: Explorations in Environmental History

    Spring 2020

    “In the case of the atomic bucolic, we also see a sleight-of-hand that embeds an unfamiliar industrial technology in a more familiar romanticized agricultural portrait.”

    Image: Seagram Company Ltd. “Deserts Will Bloom through Atomic Power.” LIFE Magazine, 12 May 1947.

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  • Queer Encounters in the Garden

    NOTCHES: (re)marks on sexuality

    May 7, 2019

    “Holy desire and divine intimacy are able to destabilize our understandings of God and Christian alike.”

    Image: Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov. Christ’s Appearance to Mary Magdalene after the Resurrection. 1835. State Russian Museum. Google Art Project.

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  • Malcontents of Modernity

    U.S. Intellectual History Blog

    April 2, 2017

    Note: My post failed to acknowledge the impact of Puritan settler colonialism on American indigenous populations.

    Image: Jonathan Edwards. "Sinners in the Hands of An Angry God, A Sermon Preached at Enfield, July 8, 1741.” Printed by S. Kneeland and T. Green, Boston. 1741. Library of Congress and New York Public Library. Wikimedia Commons.

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