Publications:
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles:
"Life and Labor in a Seabird Colony: Hawaiian Guano Workers, 1857-1870," Environmental History [forthcoming, Fall 2012]
"Boki's Predicament: The Material Culture and Environmental History of Hawaiian Sandalwood, 1811-1830," World History Bulletin 27, no.1 (Spring 2011), 46-62.
- winner of the Phi Alpha Theta / World History Association Student Paper Prize (Graduate Division), 2010
Other Publications:
"Hiawatha," "King Kamehameha," and "Tonga," in Native Peoples of the World: An Encyclopedia, ed. Steven L. Danver (Mesa Verde Publishing/M.E. Sharpe) [forthcoming]
“Wilderness Act,” in Encyclopedia of Water Politics and Policy in the United States, eds. Steven L. Danver and John R. Burch (Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 2011)
(w/ Elizabeth B. Jacks) The Hudson River School Art Trail Guide (Catskill, NY: Thomas Cole National Historic Site, 2009)
"Electric City Pond: Schenectady and the Adirondacks" (M.A. thesis, University at Albany, SUNY, 2007)
Conference Papers & Presentations:
American Society for Environmental History Conference, Madison, WI, March 2012. Paper: "Birdland: Hawaiian Migrant Workers and Nesting Seabirds on a Guano Island"; Panel Organizer: "Extreme Work Environments"
Stony Brook University History Department Colloquium Series, November 2011. Presentation: "'Aloha with Tears': Letters Home from Hawaiian Migrant Laborers"
NICHE Place and Placelessness Environmental History Workshop, "Seasons of Environmental History," October 2011. Paper and Multimedia: "Life and Labor in a Seabird Colony: Hawaiian Guano Workers, 1857-1870"
Stony Brook University History Department Colloquium Series, April 2011. Presentation: "Thinking with Birds: Marine Birds of the Pacific Ocean"
Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center Graduate Student Conference, "Changing Landscapes," Stony Brook University, SUNY, April 2011. Paper: "Polynesian Explorers in Latin America: Work, Body, and Environment"
American Historical Association Conference, Boston, January 2011. Paper: "Boundless China: Incense Consumption and the Fate of Hawaiian Environmental Sovereignty, 1811-1830"; Panel Organizer: "Sacred Commodities: Fragrant Materials and Religious Consumerism Across Asia and the World"
New York Conference on Asian Studies, Brockport, NY, October 2010. Paper: "Chinese Sugar Masters and the Transpacific Export of Environmental Knowledge"
Northeast Regional Graduate Student Conference, “Social Conflict and Environmental Change,” Yale University, April 2010. Paper: “Becoming Hawaiʻi, Becoming 檀香山 (The Sandalwood Mountains), 1790-1830”
American Society for Environmental History Conference, Portland, OR, March 2010. Paper: “Revisiting Thomas Cole’s Catskills: An Historical Review of the Landscape Painted and Not Painted”; Panel Organizer: “Nature on Canvas: Landscape Art as Historical Document”
Center for the Forest Preserve, Niskayuna, NY, February 2010. Invited Lecture: "Schenectady's Special Place in Adirondack History"
Researching NY Conference, University at Albany, SUNY, November 2009; Annual Conference on Iroquois Research, Rensselaerville, NY, October 2009. Paper: “A Polluted History of Onondaga Lake”
Upstate History Alliance / Museum Association of New York Joint Conference, March 2009. Workshop Organizer and Chair: “Learning from Landscape: A Tarrytown Walking Tour”
Association of Midwest Museums / Mountain-Plains Museum Association Joint Conference, October 2008. Paper: “Where Art Meets Nature: The Hudson River School Art Trail”
Researching NY Conference, University at Albany, SUNY, November 2007. Paper: “Schenectady and the Adirondacks: Relationships between Science, Technology, Exploration, and Wilderness Preservation”
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