Books

The Invention of Infinite Growth: How Economists Came to Believe a Dangerous Delusion (University of Chicago Press, 2025). Press website, Amazon, Barnes & Noble.

Routes of Power: Energy and Modern America (Harvard University Press, 2014). Press website, Amazon, Barnes & Noble.

Articles

“The Materiality of Energy.” Canadian Journal of History / annals canadiennes d’histoire 53 (3), Winter, 2018: 378-394.

“Building History Enrollments Through Online Courses for the Professions: Lessons from Teaching the History of Engineering.” The History Teacher 51 (4), August, 2018: 549-572.

“How Pipelines Constrict Oil Flows.” Limn Issue 10: Chokepoints, January, 2018.

“Infrastructure and Democracy” with David Reinecke. Issues in Science and Technology 33 (2), Winter, 2017: 24-30.

“Petromyopia: Oil and the Energy Humanities.” Humanities 5 (2), June, 2016.

“Landscapes of Intensification: Transport and Energy in the U.S. Mid-Atlantic, 1820-1930.” Journal of Transport History 35 (2), December, 2014: 236-41.

“History’s Contribution to Energy Research and Policy” with Richard Hirsh. Energy Research & Social Science 1 (1), March, 2014: 106-11.

“The British Shaping of America’s First Fossil Fuel Transition.” Rachel Carson Perspectives 5 (2014): 27-34. “Energy (and) Colonialism, Energy (In)Dependence: Africa, Europe, Greenland, North America” edited by Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga and Helmuth Trischler.

With Kyoko Sato and Shi-Lin Loh. “Narrating Fukushima: Scales of a Nuclear Disaster.” East Asian Science, Technology, and Society 7 (4), December, 2013: 601-23.

With Clark Miller and Alastair Iles.”The Social Dimensions of Energy Transitions.” Science as Culture 22 (2), June, 2013: 135-48.

“Building More Just Energy Infrastructure: Lessons From the Past.” Science as Culture 22 (2), June, 2013: 157-63.

With Sebastian Pfotenhauer, Kris Saha, and Sheila Jasanoff. “Learning from Fukushima.” Issues in Science and Technology 28 (3), Spring, 2012: 79-84.

“The Carbon-Consuming Home: Residential Markets and Energy Transitions.” Enterprise & Society 12 (4), December, 2011: 790-823.
— Honorable Mention, 2012 Oxford Journals Article Prize for the best article published in the journal Enterprise & Society in the previous year.

“A Landscape of Energy Abundance: Anthracite Coal Canals and the Roots of American Fossil Fuel Dependence, 1820-1860.” Environmental History 15 (3), July, 2010: 449-84.
—Winner, 2011 Joel A. Tarr Envirotech Prize for the best article published in the previous eighteen months in the relationships between technology and environment in history.

Roundtable Reviews

From 2014 to 2019, I was the principal editor of the H-Environment Roundtable Reviews series, a forum in which three to four colleagues write reviews of recent notable books in the field of environmental history that are posted along with a response from the author. I select the books for review, find suitable reviewers, edit the responses, write an introduction, and disseminate the roundtables.