Publications

Author/Title Research Type Related Fields
Menace to Empire: Anticolonial Solidarities and the Transpacific Origins of the US Security State. Oakland: University of California Press, 2022. Print. Publications, Books 20th Century, Asian American, Capitalism, Comparative Colonialisms, Empire and Colonialism, Migration, North American West, Philippine and Filipino American, Race and Ethnicity, United States
"Why the Myth of the Gay Nazi is Back in Circulation" Slate 24 August 2018 Publications, Articles 20th Century, Sexuality, Transgender Studies, War and Terror, Western Europe
"Where Did the Empire Go? Archives and Decolonization in Britain," American Historical Review 120.3 (June 2015): 884-899. Publications, Articles Empire and Colonialism, Modern Britain, Postcolonial
"Was the Homosexual Made White? Race, Empire, and Analogy in Gay and Trans Thought in Twentieth-Century Germany," Gender and History (March 2019) Publications, Articles Gender, Germany, Jewish Studies, Queer Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Sexuality, Transgender Studies, Women
"To Secure Her Freedom: 'Dorcas ye blackmore': Race, Redemption, and the Dorchester First Church," in New England Quarterly 89.4 (Dec., 2016): 533-555. Publications, Articles Race and Ethnicity, Religion, Women
"The Sounds of Independence? Lessons from Africa and Beyond at the Transcription Centre Archive," History Workshop Journal 78 (Autumn 2014): 229-245. Publications, Articles Africa, Empire and Colonialism, Postcolonial
"The Postcolonial Family? West African Children, Private Fostering, and the British State," Journal of Modern History 81.1 (2009): 87-121. [Winner of the Walter D. Love Article Prize from the North American Conference on British Studies.] Publications, Articles Empire and Colonialism, Modern Britain, Postcolonial
"The Place of Liberalism," Victorian Studies 48.1 (2005): 83 - 91. Publications, Articles England and Great Britain, Ideology
"The Boot and the Spleen: When Was Murder Possible in British India?" Comparative Studies in Society and History 48.2 (2006): 463 - 494. Publications, Articles Empire and Colonialism, England and Great Britain, South Asia
"Suppose the Mother Were Jewish": Leo Pfeffer, the American Jewish Congress, and the Problem of Religious Protection Law." American Jewish History, Volume 107, Number 1, January 2023, pp. 467-496 (Article) Publications, Articles 20th Century, American, Family, Jewish Studies, Law, Religion
"Remapping the American Left: A History of Radical Discontinuity" LABOR: Studies in Working-Class History (May 2020), 11-45 Publications, Articles 20th Century, American, Digital Humanities, History, Labor, Political History, Social Movements, Sociology
"Radical Conservations: The Problem with the London Museum," Radical History Review 84 (2002): 43-76. Publications, Articles England and Great Britain, Popular Culture
"Queer Fascism and the End of Gay History," blog post, Notches (June 2018) Publications, Articles Queer Studies, Sexuality
"Prague Spring on the Periphery: Eastern Slovak Steelworkers React to Reform and Invasion in 1968," Kosmas: Czechoslovak and Central European Journal, vol. 1, no. 2, (Winter 2018). Publications, Articles 20th Century, Eastern Europe, Socialism and Post-Socialism
"Picturing Feminism, Selling Liberalism: The Case of the Disappearing Holbein," Gender and History 11(1999): 145-163. Reprinted in Bettina Carbonell, ed., Museum Studies: An Anthology of Contexts (Oxford: Blackwell, 2003). Publications, Articles England and Great Britain, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Ideology, Popular Culture
"Petitioning for their 'Liberty': Wives and Sisters in the Boston First Church Schism 1669-1674" (under consideration by the New England Quarterly) Publications Religion, Women
"Partnership and Discord in International Debates about Coca Chewing, 1949-1950," Medicine Anthropology Theory 4, no. 2 (2018), pp. 35-51. Publications, Articles Health, History of Science, Indigenous, Latin America, Race and Ethnicity, South America
"Making Faces: Tattooed Women and Colonial Regimes" History Workshop Journal 59 (2005): 33-56. Publications, Articles Empire and Colonialism, England and Great Britain, Race and Ethnicity, Women
"Leaving Home: The Politics of Deportation in Postwar Britain," Journal of British Studies 48.4 (2008): 852-882. Publications, Articles Empire and Colonialism, Modern Britain, Postcolonial
"Kicked Out: Czechoslovakia's Postwar Policy toward Ethnic Minorities and Its Unintended Outcomes," Slovakia vol. 43, no. 80-81, (2017): 81-104. Publications, Articles 20th Century, Eastern Europe, Socialism and Post-Socialism
"Indian Yellow: Making and Breaking the Imperial Palette," Journal of Material Culture 10 (2005): 197-214. Reprinted in Martin Jay and Sumathi Ramaswamy, eds. Empires of Vision: A Reader (Durham: Duke University Press, 2014). Publications, Articles Empire and Colonialism, England and Great Britain, Race and Ethnicity
"From Don Juan to Comrade Ivan: Educating the Young Men of the Urals for Love and Marriage, 1953-1964," Aspasia  15, 1 (2021): 21-40. https://doi.org/10.3167/asp.2021.150103 Publications, Articles Comparative Gender, Gender, History, Russia, Sexuality, Socialism and Post-Socialism, Soviet Union
"Fostering Independence," History Today 63.8 (August 2013): 21-26. Publications, Articles Empire and Colonialism, Modern Britain, Postcolonial
"Forgotten Velvet: Understanding Eastern Slovakia's 1989," New Perspectives: Interdisciplinary Journal of Central and East European Politics and International Relations, vol. 27, no. 3, (Winter 2019): 63-100. Publications, Articles 20th Century, Eastern Europe, Socialism and Post-Socialism
"Decolonizing Emotions: The Management of Feeling in the New World Order," in Frank Biess and Daniel Gross, eds., Science and the Emotions after 1945: A Transatlantic Perspective (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014). Publications, Articles Empire and Colonialism, Postcolonial