Articles and Short Works

"Tiffany Thayer versus the Flying Saucers," Fortean Times​ July 2024, 38-41 (excerpt).

“One measure a circle, beginning anywhere”: Henry Miller and the Fortean Fantasy, Nexus 11 (2016): 145-168.

"Camping with Bigfoot: Sasquatch and the Varieties of Middle-Class Resistance to Consumer Culture in late Twentieth-Century North America,” Journal of Popular Culture 46 (2013): 38-58 .

"Tracking Bigfoot Through 1970s North American Children's Culture: How Mass Media, Consumerism, and the Culture of Preadolescence Shaped Wildman Lore," Western Folklore 70 (2011): 194-218.

“Wildmen on the Cyberfrontier: The Computer Geek as an Iteration in the American Wildman Lore Cycle,” Folklore 121 (2010): 61-80.

"Do You Believe in Santa Cla -- er, Bigfoot?," Washington Post Short Stack 18 December 2009.

Joshua Blu Buhs, "Bigfoot: The Life and Times of a Legend," New York Post 28 June 2009.

"Entomology," Oxford Encyclopedia of the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology in America, Oxford University Press, 2014.

“The Fire Ant Wars: Nature and Science in the Pesticide Controversies of the Late Twentieth Century,” (REPRINT) Environmental History and the American South: An Anthology of Recent Work, Edited by Christopher Manganiello and Paul S. Sutter (Athens, University of Georgia Press, 2009), 345-71.

“Ground Zero in the Fire Ant Wars,” Alabama Heritage, Fall 2006, Issue 82, 24-31

“The Fire Ant Wars: Nature and Science in the Pesticide Controversies of the Late Twentieth Century,” Isis 93 (2002): 377-400. (Winner, Henry and Ida Schuman Prize, 2001.)

“Dead Cows on a Georgia Field: Mapping the Cultural Landscape of the Post-World War II American Pesticide Controversies,” Environmental History, 7 (2002): 99-121.

“Anagenesis vs. Cladogenesis,” The World of Genetics, Lerner and Lerner Publishing, 2002, 27.

“Character Displacement,” The World of Genetics, Lerner and Lerner Publishing, 2002, 128.

"Building on Bedrock: William Steel Creighton and the Reformation of Ant Systematics, 1925–1970," Journal of the History of Biology 33 (2000): 27-70. (Winner, Forum for the History of Science in America Young Scholars' Publication Prize, 2003.

Reviews

Review, Pesticides: A Love Story, Journal of Southern History, 83 (2017): 233-34.

Review, Encounter in Rendlesham Forest, Washington Post 15 June 2014, B7.

Review, Frank Swain, How to Make a Zombie: The Real Life (and Death) Science of Reanimation and Mind Control, Washington Post 8 September 2013, B6.

Review, Stephane Gerson, Nostradamus: How an Obscure Renaissance Astrologer Became the Modern Prophet of Doom, Washington Post 6 January 2013, B5.

Review, David Kinkela, DDT and the American Century: Global Health, Environmental Politics, and the Pesticide That Changed the World, Isis 103 (2012): 615-6.

Review, John Bindernagel, The Discovery of the Sasquatch: Reconciling Culture, History, and Science in the Discovery Process, Isis 103 (2012): 208-209.

Review, Robert Trivers, The Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life, Washington Post 1 January 2012, B5.

Three Books on UFOs, Washington Post 13 October 2010, C04.

Review, Claire Strom, Making Catfish Bait Out of Government Boys: The Fight Against Cattle Ticks and the Transformation of the Yeoman South, Agricultural History 84 (2010): 558-559.

Review, James E. McWilliams, American Pests: The Losing War on Insects from Colonial Times to DDT, Journal of Southern History 75 (2009): 1036-1037.

Review, Charlotte Sleigh, Six Legs Better: A Cultural History of Myrmecology, Isis 98 (2007): 855-856.

"Of Moths and Men, or, Why Did Massachusetts Try to Eradicate the Gypsy Moth?," Review, Robert J. Spear, The Great Gypsy Moth War, H-Environment September 2006.

Review, Paul Shepard, Where We Belong: Beyond Abstraction in Perceiving Nature, Environmental History 9 (October 2004): 746-747.

Manuscript reviewer, University of Chicago Press, Environmental History, Journal of the History of Biology.