Essays and Op-Eds
All essays
- 2026How Disneyland Taught Us to Love RobotsZócalo Public Square
- 2026The Aesthetics of AutomationThe Brooklyn Rail
- 2026Disney’s $60 Billion Bet on the One Thing AI Can’t ReplaceFortune
- 2026Walt Disney Visited a Ford Factory in 1948. What He Witnessed There Laid the Groundwork for DisneylandSmithsonian
- 2023Queer History Is Powerful. We Need More of It.San Francisco Chronicle
- 2023“To Clarify an Everchanging Present”: Hyperchronicity, Anachronism, and the Relationship between History and Social ScienceLSE Impact of Social Sciences
- 2021Anti-Blackness and Transphobia Are Older Than We ThoughtThe Washington Post
- 2021Why White Supremacists and QAnon Enthusiasts Are Obsessed, but Very Wrong, about the Byzantine EmpireThe Conversation
- 2021What the QAnon of the 6th Century Teaches UsTIME
- 2020Abortion and Contraception in the Middle AgesScientific American
- 2020The Little Known History of Transgender SaintsThe Advocate
- 2020Why Byzantium? Studying the Art of the Middle Ages as a Queer LatinxLiterary Hub
- 2020The Overlooked Queer History of Medieval ChristianityTIME