BOOKS
Monumentale Probleme: Freiheit und Einheit kommen nach Berlin. In Nach Auschwitz : Schwieriges Erbe DDR: Plädoyer für einen Paradigmenwechsel in der DDR-Zeitgeschichtsforschung (Wochenschau, 2018). English: “Freedom and Unity Come to Berlin.” In After Auschwitz: The Difficult Legacies of the GDR (Berghahn Books, 2021).
ARTICLES/ESSAYS
Los Angeles Review of Books
Thin Ice: On Uwe Wittstock’s “February 1933”
Going Coastal: On Some Recent Books on the Ecology and History of Beaches
A Tale of Blue Cities
The Baffler
Nuding Out
Atlas Obscura
The Museum Where Racist and Oppressive Statues Go to Die
In 19th-Century America, Fighting Disease Meant Battling Bad Smells
The Cut (New York Magazine)
Project Placenta. A Little-Studied Organ Gets its Scientific Due
The History of Talking About Miscarriage
The Atlantic
How the Index Card Catalogued the World
Women are Reinventing the Long-Despised Speculum
Smithsonian
When Tuberculosis Struck the World, Schools Went Outside
San Francisco’s Early Days Statue is Gone. Now Comes the Work of Activating Real History
A Federal Immigration Building with a Dark Past
Inventing the Beach: The Unnatural History of a Natural Place
The Train Station That Has Been Housing the World’s Refugees for More Than a Century
Undark
Medicine or Myth? The Dubious Benefits of Placenta-Eating
Foreign Policy
‘We Can’t Save Syrians Anymore, But We Can Save the Truth’
The Banality of History
Stanford Social Innovation Review
How Police Violence Moves Voters
When Diversity Initiatives Fail
A Theory of Football Activism
The Language of Crowdfunding
Why Do Collaborations Fail?
Politics, Values, and the Green Transition
The Values of Mentorship
For Investors, Protesting Beats Divesting
How Refugee Crises Become Permanent
The Cost of Saying Too Little
Redefining the Corporate-Community Partnership
The Impact of Cash for Infants
Electability Bias against Female Candidates
Diversity, Hierarchy, and Teamwork
Supporting Students After Juvenile Detention
Finding Meaning in Measurement
Growing Locally and Deeply
The Great Disrupter of Disadvantage
The Work of Inclusion in an Emergency Department
How Work Helps Refugees Thrive
Voluntarism and Unselfish Leadership
What Kinds of Protests Work?
Lending in the Shadow of Colonialism
Precarious Scheduling in the Service Sector
How Corporate Philanthropy Buys Influence
Protests, Violence, and Political Change
How College Admissions Hurt Intergenerational Mobility
Science’s Diversity Problem
Nonprofit Advocacy and its Role in Civil Society and Democracy
The Paradox of American Health Care
The War of Ideas
Basking in the Green Glow
Stanford Research Shows How Classroom Discipline Perpetuates Gender and Racial Biases
Researchers Explain How International NGOs Pursue Advocacy in the Face of Government Opposition
O, The Oprah Magazine
Make/Believe: Girls Garage
Washington Post
co-authored with Tamara Venit Shelton
Vaccines Save Lives. But Stricter Laws May Backfire
JSTOR Daily
The False Promises of Wellness
Outside Magazine
The Analog Mapmaker in the Digital Age
Teen Vogue
Meet Saira Hussain, the Lawyer Fighting for Immigrants' Rights
Hyperallergic
Seeing the Lives of Immigrants in Objects and Images of Home
Marginalia Review of Books
Monumental Problems: Freedom and Unity Come to Berlin
Literary Hub
The Library the Gold Rush Built
New Republic
From California, A Progressive Cry for State's Rights
Is the Latin American Left Dead?
Narratively
My Father’s Secret Life in the Hospital of Death
I Hired a Real-Life Pet Detective
Reuters
Never the Next Great Power: Argentina’s Future is Always in the Past
The Forward
Recipes from My Argentine Grandmother
Dame
I Haven’t Been a “Girl” For Years
Paste Magazine
Build It (Sustainably) and They Will Come