Academic Publications.
- 2022. Boiling Sand, Metallic Fire: Temporalities of Technopolitics in an Idaho Nuclear Waste Accident. American Ethnologist 49(3). (Link).
- 2021. Drum Breach: Error Politics, Operational Temporalities, and WIPP’s Kitty Litter Nuclear Waste Accident. Social Studies of Science 51(3). (Link).
- 2021. Mankala Chronicles: Nuclear Energy Financing & Cooperative Corporate Form in Finland. Nuclear Technology: Journal of The American Nuclear Society 207(9). (Link).
- 2021. Delving Into Deep Time. Nature Geoscience 14(710–711). (Link).
- 2020. Deep Time Reckoning: How Future Thinking Can Help Earth Now. The MIT Press. (Link).
- 2020. Spectres of Seppo: The Afterlives of Finland’s Nuclear Waste Experts. The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 26(2). (Link).
- 2020. Generation. Anthropocene Unseen: A Lexicon (eds. Cymene Howe & Anand Pandian). Brooklyn, NY: Punctum Press. (Link).
- 2019. Alter-Ecologies: Envisioning Papal & Ecomodernist Nuclear Energy Policy Futures. Care for the World: Laudato Si & Catholic Social Thought in an Era of Climate Crisis (ed. Frank Pasquale). Cambridge University Press. (Link).
- 2018. Waste Makes Haste: How a Campaign to Speed up Nuclear Waste Shipments Shut Down the WIPP Long-Term Repository. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 74(4). (Link).
- 2017. Death & Succession Among Finland’s Nuclear Waste Experts. Physics Today 70(10). (Link).
- 2014. Adjudicating Deep Time: Revisiting the United States’ High-Level Nuclear Waste Repository Project at Yucca Mountain. Science & Technology Studies 27(2). (Link).
Public Scholarship.
- “Do You Find the 21st Century Overstimulating? Try Longstorming.” Psyche, 6/13/2024. (Link).
- “Deep Time Underground.” The Long Now Foundation, 6/3/2022. (Link).
- “Keeping Time Into the Great Beyond.” Noema, 4/5/2022. (Link).
- “The Art of Pondering Earth's Distant Future.” Scientific American, 8/13/2021. (Link).
- “What’s Behind the U.S. War on Science?” Sapiens & MIT Press Reader, 6/22/2021. (Link).
- “The Benefits of Embracing ‘Deep Time’ in a Year Like 2020.” BBC, 12/9/2020. (Link).
- “Can Nuclear Power Plants Generate Artistic Inspiration?” NPR, 2/27/2018. (Link).
- “Why Nuclear Power Professionals Are Serious About Joking Around.” Nautilus, 11/24/2017. (Link).
- “Trump’s Slogan: More About the ‘Make’ Than the ‘Great’” (with Chloe Ahmann). Sapiens, 4/26/2017. (Link).
- “Books Trump Should Read Before Getting the Nuclear Codes” (with Annie Tomlinson). NPR, 12/27/2017. (Link).
- “Smaller Nuclear Weapons and Power Plants Under Development Hold Promise and Peril” (with Annie Tomlinson). Forbes, 10/25/2016. (Link).
- “Excited About the Pope's Visit? Read Laudato Si.” (with Annelise Riles). NPR, 9/26/2015. (Link).
- “Can Remnants of Ancient Life Show Us How to Live Wisely Into the Future?” Nautilus, 3/17/2015. (Link).
- “Looking Into the Far Future of Earth’s First Long-Term Nuclear-Waste Vault.” Nautilus, 3/16/2015. (Link).
- “Embracing Deep Time Thinking.” NPR, 9/28/2014. (Link).
- “Pondering ‘Deep Time’ Could Inspire New Ways to View Climate Change.” NPR, 9/21/2014. (Link).
- “Envisioning Landscapes of Our Very Distant Future.” NPR, 9/14/2014. (Link).
Short Academic Writings.
- 2024. Environmental Justice & Public Engagement in the U.S. Consent-based Siting Process. Co-authored with Marissa Bell. Proceedings from the International Conference on the Management of Spent Fuel from Nuclear Power Reactors, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). 6/2024.
- 2021. Nuclear Energy & Climate Change. Nuclear Compensation: Lessons from Fukushima (ed. Hirokazu Miyazaki). Northwestern University, Buffett Institute for Global Affairs eBook, 3/2021. (Link).
- 2014. The (Un)bearable Lightness of Nuclear Energy in Finland. Forum on Humor, Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society 39(4).
- 2013. Nuclear Energy’s Long Now: Intransigent Wastes & Radioactive Greens. Forum on Energy & Social Theory, Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society 38(3).