Journal Articles & Essays

“A First Responder to the World,” Modern American History 7 (2024): 87–91.

“Model Villages amidst the Ruins: Disaster Refugee Camps and Settlements as Functional Sites of Humanitarian Exhibition,” L’Humanitaire S’Exhibe (1867–2016), eds. Sébastien Farré, Jean-François Fayet, and Bertrand Taithe (Georg Editeur, 2022): 170–193.

“The Emergency Service: Evaluating the Role of Militaries in Humanitarian Operations, Disaster Relief, and Other Non-Conflict Crises,” invited introduction to the special issue “Military Response to Natural Disasters and National Emergencies,” Journal of Advanced Military Studies 13:1 (2022): 5–13.

“Comment: Towards a History of Health Care: Repositioning the Histories of Nursing and Medicine,” invited comment on Patricia D’Antonio’s “Positioning Paper,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 96:3 (2022): 314–320.

Bernath Lecture: “Our Climatic Moment: Hazarding a History of the United States and the World,” Diplomatic History 45:3 (2021): 421–444.

“Humanitarianism and U.S. Foreign Assistance,” in The Cambridge History of America and the World, vol. 3, 1900–1945, eds. Brooke Blower and Andrew Preston (Cambridge University Press, 2021): 337–359.

“Disastrous Grand Strategy: U.S. Humanitarian Assistance and Global Natural Catastrophe,” in Rethinking American Grand Strategy, eds. Elizabeth Borgwardt, Christopher McKnight Nichols, and Andrew Preston (Oxford University Press, 2021): 366–383.

“On Disaster,” co-authored with Jenny Leigh Smith, Isis: A Journal of the History of Science Society 111:1(2020): 98–103.

“The ‘Development’ of Humanitarian Relief: U.S. Disaster Assistance Operations in the Caribbean Basin, 1917–1931,” in The Development Century: A Global History, eds. Stephen Macekura and Erez Manela (Cambridge University Press, 2018): 40–60.

“The Origins of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance,” The American Historian 15 (2018): 43–49.

“Connected by Calamity: The United States, the League of Red Cross Societies, and Transnational Disaster Assistance after the First World War,” Moving the Social: Journal of Social History and the History of Social Movements 57 (2017): 57–76.

“The American Red Cross in Great War-Era Europe, 1914–1922,” The Tocqueville Review/La Revue Tocqueville 38:2 (2017): 117–131.

“Raging Rivers and Propaganda Weevils: Transnational Disaster Relief, Cold War Politics, and the 1954 Danube and Elbe Floods,” Diplomatic History 40:5 (2016): 893–921.

“Beyond Versailles: Recovering the Voices of Nurses in Post-World War I U.S.-European Relations,” Nursing History Review 24 (2016): 12–40.

“Interchange: World War I,” Journal of American History 102:2 (2015): 463–499.

“The Disaster of War: American Conceptions of Catastrophe, Conflict, and Relief,” First World War Studies 5:1 (2014): 17–28.

“Taming Total War: Great War-Era American Humanitarianism and Its Legacies,” Diplomatic History 38:4 (2014): 763–775. Revised and expanded version in Beyond 1917: The United States and the Global Legacies of the Great War, eds. Thomas W. Zeiler, David K. Ekbladh, and Benjamin C. Montoya (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017): 122–139.

“Teaching ‘Americanism with a World Perspective’: The Junior Red Cross in the U.S. Schools from 1917 to the 1920s,” History of Education Quarterly 53:3 (2013): 255–279.

“The Great White Train: Typhus, Sanitation, and U.S. International Development during the Russian Civil War,” Endeavour 36:3 (2012): 89–96.

“‘Sauvons les Bébés’: Child Health and U.S. Humanitarian Aid in the First World War,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 86:1(2012): 37–65.

“Nurses Without Borders: The History of Nursing as U.S. International History,” Nursing History Review 19 (2011): 78–102.

“Nation Building and Rebuilding: The American Red Cross in Italy During the Great War,” The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 8:3 (2009): 407–439.

“An Epidemic without Enmity: Explaining the Missing Ethnic Tensions in New Haven’s 1918 Influenza Epidemic,” Urban History Review 36:2 (2008): 5–17.