Selected Writing
On Food & Environment
“Will Climate Change Help Hybrid Grapes Take Root in the American Wine Industry?” for Civil Eats (republished on Eater)
“Pennyroyal, Rue and ‘Hickry Pickry’: The American History of Abortion” with Ashley Buchanan for Whetstone Magazine
“Meet four women who are reinvigorating D.C.’s cheese scene” for Washington Post
“In India, The British Hyped Potatoes to Justify Colonialism” for Atlas Obscura
(Winner of the Student Article Prize, Second Place, Association of Food Journalists)
“Catawba: Back to the Future of the American Wine Industry” for Arnoldia Magazine
“Plant of the Month: Turmeric” for JStor Daily
“Plant of the Month: Robusta Coffee” for JStor Daily
“Plant of the Month: Pawpaw” for JStor Daily
“Plant of the Month: Jackfruit” for JStor Daily
“Plant of the Month: Hops” for JStor Daily
“Plant of the Month: Black-Eyed Peas” for JStor Daily
“The Man Behind the Potato” for Eaten Magazine
“Worcestershire Sauce and the Geographies of Empire” for Nursing Clio
"From Delhi to Durban: The Many Homes of Madras Curry Powder” for Whetstone x Diaspora Co.
“Farmworkers Face Outsized Fatalities, States Must Work to Protect Their Health” for Our Daily Planet
“Locusts Threaten Food Security in India and Pakistan” for Our Daily Planet
“Coal Ash Barges in India Continue to Capsize, Jeopardizing Public Health, Mangroves, Fishers” for Our Daily Planet
“Is America Foisting its Plastics Problem on Africa?” for Our Daily Planet
Academic Writing
“‘Without Sympathy There is No Cookery’: Imperial Knowledge and the Creation of ‘Indian’ Cuisine” for Digest: A Journal of Foodways and Culture (Winner of the American Folklore Society Sue Samuelson Award)
“Review: Afternoon Tea by Julia Skinner” for Food, Culture, and Society
“Review: Imperial Wine by Jennifer Regan-Lefebvre” for Gastronomica
Digital & Public Humanities
“Carolina Rice: An Agricultural Legacy of Enslaved Peoples” for Plant Humanities Lab
“Turmeric: Herb of the Sun” for Plant Humanities Lab
“Maize: Sacred Plant, Global Commodity” for Plant Humanities Lab
“Introduction to the Plant Humanities” for The Recipes Project (Also served as Series Editor)
“Food Culture and First Chefs: Appreciating the Layers of Meaning Behind Food in Shakespeare’s World and Our Own” for Shakespeare & Beyond
“Much Ado About Stuffing: Recreating an Early Modern Stuffing Recipe” with Jack Bouchard, Elisa Tersigni, and Michael Walkden for Shakespeare & Beyond
“Eating Plants in the Early Modern World” for Shakespeare & Beyond
“Cultivating History: The Plant Humanities at Dumbarton Oaks” with Yota Batsaki for American Historical Association Perspectives Magazine
“Extracting Empire: Changing Visions of Labor and Environment in Bengal’s Salt Industry” for Environmental History Now