Publications

Book

Habitual Drunkard: Compulsive Drinkers and the Dilemmas of Citizenship in the Nineteenth-Century United States, Critical Issues in Health and Medicine Series, Rutgers University Press (under contract, expected in 2027).

Articles

Incapable of Managing His Estate: Habitual Drunkards and the Expansion of Guardianship in the Nineteenth-Century United States,” Law and History Review (2025): 1-25.

An Artificial Appetite: The Nineteenth-Century Struggle to Define Habitual Drunkenness,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 98, no. 2 (2024): 175-204.

Valuing Process over Product: Writing to Learn in the Undergraduate History Classroom,” Teaching History: A Journal of Methods 46, no. 1 (2021): 10-22 [with Genesea M. Carter].

Book Chapters

“Drunkard,” in Breaking the Habit: An Introduction to How We Talk, and Shouldn’t Talk, about Addiction, edited by Helena Hansen, David Herzberg, and Keith Wailoo (forthcoming).

“Riding the Black Valley Railroad: Temperance Messaging in the Civil War Era,” The Substances of War: Alcohol, Drugs, and Medicine in the Civil War Era, edited by Joseph Beilein, Jr., Megan Bever, and Jonathan Jones (forthcoming).

Corrupting the body and mind: distilled spirits, drunkenness, and disease in early-modern England and the British Atlantic world," in Alcohol, psychiatry and society: Comparative and transnational perspectives, c. 1700-1990s, Waltraud Ernst and Thomas Müller, eds. (Manchester University Press, 2022), 36-65.

Public Writing

“The Strange Case of Henrietta Wiley: A Habitual Drunkard’s Journey Through Guardianship and the Asylum,” Nursing Clio (forthcoming, 2025).

Beyond Cardiac Surgery: Owen H. Wangensteen and the University of Minnesota’s Contributions to Mid-Century Surgical Science," Minnesota Medicine (January/February, 2018): 22-25.