"The Trans-Saharan Railway Project, 1876-1945: French Railway Imperialism and the Environment in North Africa," Technology and Culture 67, no. 1 (January 2026) [accepted for publication]
"Haussmann in the Maghreb: French Colonial Urbanism in North Africa, 1830-1962," journal article in progress
"Making the Case for Environmental History in the Secondary Social Studies Classroom," journal article in progress
A Reimagined Periphery: Environmental Transformations and the Construction of the French Colonial Empire in North Africa, book manuscript in progress
Review of Valerie Kivelson, Sergei Kozlov, and Joan Neuberger, Picturing Russian Empire, in H-War Reviews [forthcoming]
Review of Brock Cutler, Ecologies of Imperialism in Algeria, in French History 38, no. 3 (September 2024): 371-72.
Review of Alexander Morrison, The Russian Conquest of Central Asia: A Study in Imperial Expansion, 1814-1914, in H-Russia Reviews (April 2022)
Review of Steven Press, Rogue Empires: Contracts and Conmen in Europe's Scramble for Africa, in H-War Reviews (November 2021)
"Conflicting Urban Visions: North African Cities at the 1922 & 1931 Colonial Expositions," Annual Meeting of the French Colonial Historical Society, held at Buffalo State University in Buffalo, NY, May 2025.
“Infusing Environmental History into Secondary Social Studies,” New York State Council for the Social Studies (NYSCSS) 87th Annual Convention, held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Albany, NY, March 2025.
“From Diverting Rivers to Flooding Deserts: French Colonial Hydraulic Schemes in North Africa, 1830-1960,” 17th Annual Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA) Conference, held at Georgetown Marriott Hotel in Washington, DC, November 2024.
“Exporting Haussmann: Urbanism in the French Colonial Empire, 1830-1960,” 74th Annual Meeting of the New York State Association of European Historians (NYSAEH), held at SUNY Oswego in Oswego, NY, October 2024.
“Redefining the North African City: Villes Nouvelles in Algiers and Tunis,” 16th Annual Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA) Conference, held at Georgetown Marriott Hotel in Washington, DC, November 2023.
“Selling Siberia: The Russian Empire at the Exposition Universelle de 1900,” Annual Meeting of the New York State Association of European Historians (NYSAEH), held at Le Moyne College, October 2021.
“’Awakening into Life’: Russia’s Use of Environmental Propaganda in Constructing the Trans-Siberian Railway, 1891-1914,” Irish Association of Russian, Central, and East European Studies (IARCEES) Conference, held at University College Dublin, May 2021.
“A Disdain for Deserts: The Sahara Sea Project and Climatic Modification in North Africa,” Comparative Desert Imaginations Symposium, held at Williams College, May 2021.
“Water in the Desert: La Mer Intérieure and the Illusions of Empire,” Annual Meeting of the French Colonial Historical Society, held at University at Buffalo, May 2020 (cancelled due to COVID-19 outbreak)
“By Any Means Necessary: Cooperation and the Construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway, 1891-1904,” North East Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (NESEEES) Annual Conference, held at New York University Jordan Center, April 2020 (cancelled due to COVID-19 outbreak)
“Building the Empire: The Rise and Fall of Railway Construction in French Africa, 1879-1945,” New York State Association of European Historians (NYSAEH) Annual Conference, held at SUNY Canton, October 2019.