• Environmental History
• History of Climate and Society
• Early Modern World (ca.1400-1800)
• History of Science, Medicine, and Technology

The Cold Standard: Climate, Memory, and the Great Winter of 1709 (book manuscript in progress)

Translating Environments: Nature and Empire on the Early Modern Coromandel Coast, 1500-1760 (new book project funded by The Royal Society, Lisa Jardine Grant)

Peer Reviewed

“Remembrance of Auroras Past: The Enlightenment Search for Northern Lights in Historical Sources,” Isis: A Journal of the History of Science Society, Vol.115, No.2 (2024), 215-240. 

“The Arctic, 1594: Climate Events in Early Modern European Chronicles during the Little Ice Age,” in Europe in the World: A Literary History, 1529-1683, ed. Warren Boutcher, assoc. eds Christopher Archibald, Lily Freeman-Jones, and Máté Vince, 4 vols (Oxford: Oxford University Press).

“All Eyes on the Sky: Collective Weather Observation in Early Modern Europe,” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society

“1709: A Winter of Content in the Republic of Meteorological Letters,” History of Universities, Volume XXXVI/2 (2023), 184-204. 

Public writing

“Understanding the Northern Lights,” History Today, Volume 76, Issue 1 (January 2026)

HIST-110F Frozen: A Global History of Ice and Climate, 12000BCE – 2100CE (Fall 2026)

Recent Honours & Awards

• 2025 Rachel Carson Dissertation Prize, American Society for Environmental History
• 2025 Tallinn Dissertation Prize (finalist), European Society for Environmental History
• Lisa Jardine Grant, The Royal Society (2025/26)
• Prize Fellowship in Economics, History, and Politics. Harvard Center for History and Economics (2024-2026; 2028-2029)

Professional Membership

• American Society for Environmental History
• History of Science Society
• Renaissance Society of America