scholarly
“Where the Dumps that Used to Be Ponds Used to Be: Urbanization and Waste in Providence, Rhode Island.” Modern American History (Spring 2026).
FLOODNOTES: on Providence, Enclosure, and the Tides (for ASEH, 2025).
“Only Disconnect: The Problem of Stormwater in a Rainy City.” Flux: Cahiers scientifiques internationaux Réseaux et territoires 131, 1 (2023): 51-65.
“Interface: Providence and the Populist Roots of a Downtown Revival.” Journal of Planning History 16, no. 1 (February 2017): 3–23. A required reading for URBN 0210, “The City: An Introduction to Urban Studies” at Brown University, Fall 2019.
“Urban Planning and the Spatial Transformations of Providence, RI: 1959-2000.” (2016). Originally an MA thesis, adapted as a website.
nonfiction
“trans becoming and the uncanny.” Angelikai 30.5, no. 1 (October 2025).
“On Turtles, Transition, and Return,” for the Network in Canadian History & Environment (NiCHE) series Succession: Queering the Environment (July 2024).
for earth day 2023. Presented at at RISD Nature Lab, Providence, RI.
Providence Waterways Story Map. With Traci Picard et al for Doors Open RI(Summer 2021).
“Difficult Topographies.” Contingent Magazine (May 2021).
“Topographics in Pursuit of Spirit,” Medium (February 21, 2018).
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