Select Publications

How We Died: Public and Private Health in Early America, William and Mary Quarterly (2024)

How We Died: Public and Private Health in Early America, William and Mary Quarterly (2024)

“Death, Data, and Denial in Antebellum New Orleans,” Harvard Library Bulletin (2021)

“Death, Data, and Denial in Antebellum New Orleans,” Harvard Library Bulletin (2021)

The Dangerous History of Immunoprivilege, New York Times (2020)

The Dangerous History of Immunoprivilege, New York Times (2020)

Immunity, Capital, and Power in Antebellum New Orleans, American Historical Review (2019)

Immunity, Capital, and Power in Antebellum New Orleans, American Historical Review (2019)

Super-spreader: Syphilis, Shame, and the Civil War (article in preparation)

Super-spreader: Syphilis, Shame, and the Civil War (article in preparation)

“Immunocapital,” basis of special issue in Exertions from the Society for the Anthropology of Work (2023)

“Immunocapital,” basis of special issue in Exertions from the Society for the Anthropology of Work (2023)

Necropolis (2022), paperback (2024)

Necropolis (2022), paperback (2024)

Digital supplement to “Immunity, Capital, and Power in Antebellum New Orleans” (2019)

Digital supplement to “Immunity, Capital, and Power in Antebellum New Orleans” (2019)

Bad Risk: Southerners, Climate, and Mortality in Antebellum American Life Insurance (in preparation)

Bad Risk: Southerners, Climate, and Mortality in Antebellum American Life Insurance (in preparation)

Future Projects and Research Interests

Syphilis and the Civil War

MAHA and the Misuses and Abuses of History

Life Insurance and Risk Premiums in Nineteenth-Century America

Mapping Slave Insurrections Across the Greater Caribbean

Potter’s Fields: The Burial Grounds of the Poor and Indigent

Ellis and Angel: Health in Immigration to the United States