If you would like to read my academic publications, please see my ORCID, Google Scholar, or the listing below. Please feel free to email me if you or your institution does not have a subscription to the relevant database or journal.

Book

The Archive of Empire: Knowledge, Conquest, and the Making of the Early Modern British World. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2024

For more on the book, check out podcast interviews with the New Books Network and The American Vandal, or a talk I gave about it at the Clements Library

Articles and Chapters

“Board of Trustees,” in Andy Hines (ed.), University Keywords. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2025

“William Jones, Esq.,” Global Intellectual History, 10, no. 2 (February 2025), 102-108

"Constituting the Body of State: Paper, Parchment, and Political Thought in the Age of the American Revolution,” Art History, 47, no. 4 (September 2024), 678-701

“The Ideological Origins of ‘Written’ Constitutionalism,” Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 21, no. 4 (Fall 2023), 557-599 (honorable mention for the North American Conference on British Studies’ 2024 Walter D. Love Prize)

“Metropole Matters,” William & Mary Quarterly, 3d ser., 80, no. 3 (July 2023), 559-567 (review essay)

“Beyond Somerset?: Slavery and the Temporality of Law,” Law & History Review, 40, no. 3 (August 2022), 591-595

“How Does Paper Mean?,” Modern Intellectual History, 18, no. 3 (September 2021), 888-896 (review essay)

“The Archival Epistemology of Political Economy in the Early Modern British Atlantic World,” William & Mary Quarterly, 3d ser., 77, no. 4 (October 2020), 641-674 (awarded the Society for U.S. Intellectual History’s 2020 Dorothy Ross Article Prize “for best article in U.S. intellectual history”)

“Governance Through Documents: The Board of Trade, Its Archive, and the Imperial Constitution of the Eighteenth Century British Atlantic World,” Journal of British Studies, 59, no. 2 (April 2020), 264-290

“From Formal Circulation to Archival Use: The Remark Book and the Admiralty Archive in the  British Empire, 1759-1819,” in Maria-Pia Donato and Anne Saada (eds.), Pratiques d’archives à l’époque moderne. Europe, mondes coloniaux (Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2019), 369-390

“Mobilizing the ‘State Papers’ of Empire: John Bruce, Early Modernity, and the Bureaucratic Archives of Britain,” Journal of Early Modern History, 22, no. 5 (October 2018), 392-410