Peer-reviewed Articles
Features/Editorials
Religion & Politics - “The Eugenics Roots of Evangelical Family Values”
Salon - “Eugenics, Racism, and the Forced Sterilization of an Heiress”
The New Republic - “The Conservative War On the Black Church”
The New Republic - “The Far Right’s Dangerous Fertility Myths”
The New Republic - “Ron DeSantis and His Christian Crusaders Are Stealing Trump’s Thunder”
The New Republic - “The Roots of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Sex Abuse Scandal”
The New Republic - “The Life Coaches Fueling the Exvangelical Movement”
The New Republic - “How Western Nonfiction of the Muslim World Fuels War and Retribution”
The New Republic - “The Post-Trump Crack-up of the Evangelical Community”
The New Republic - “When Cops Kill White People, Black Lives Still Matter”
The New Republic - “The Nonprofit Grifters Who Want a Cut of the Coronavirus Bailout”
The New Republic - “The Toxic Nationalism of the Pharmaceutical Industry”
The New Republic - “Big Pharma is Pushing a Big Lie”
The Atlantic - “Steel Magnolias is a Beloved Weepy With a Dark Side”
The Washington Post - “How Dismantling Welfare Continues the Legacy of Eugenics”
The Washington Post - “Drug Prices Are Killing Diabetes. ‘Walmart’ insulin isn’t the solution”
The Progressive - “How America’s ‘Boostraps’ Myth Hurts Farmers—and All of Us”
Contingent Magazine - “Lovers Under an Apple Tree”
Coda Story - “How a Disinformation Campaign Wiped Out Synthetic Insulin’s Deadly Effects”
Lady Science - “Against Medical Advice: Priscilla White and Diabetic Pregnancy”
Lady Science - “Sex, Science, and the End of the World”
Narratively - “The Curious Case of the Socialite Who Sterilized Her Daughter”
Longreads - “We Still Don’t Know How to Navigate the Eugenics Movement”
Book Reviews
New York Times - Kate Winkler Dawson’s The Ghost Club
The Progressive - Kyla Schuller’s The Trouble With White Women: A Counter-history of Feminism
Public Books - Narrative in Social Work Practice (Eds. Ann Burack-Weiss et al)
Marginalia Review of Books - K. A. Johnson’s Medical Stigmata
Marginalia Review of Books - Michael Pollan’s How to Change Your Mind
Marginalia Review of Books - Wendy Kline’s Coming Home
Marginalia Review of Books - Thomas Kidd’s Who is An Evangelical?
Interviews (As interviewer)
ASAP/J - “The Authority of Fiction.” A conversation with Monique Truong.
Sojourners - “Journalism Needs a Wider Scope on Religion.” A conversation with Ed Simon.
Interviews (As subject)
Ms. Magazine - “Girls and Their Monsters.” A conversation with Eleanor Bader.
Inside Edition - “The Tragic and Disturbing Story of Ann Cooper Hewitt.”
The Progressive - “The Lasting Impact of Eugenics.” A conversation with Eleanor Bader.
Mary Kate Leonard - Interview on The Unfit Heiress
Media Appearances
Inside Edition - “The Tragic Story of Ann Cooper Hewitt, the Forcibly Sterilized Heiress”
Criminal podcast - “Unfit.” A conversation with host Phoebe Judge.
Talk Nerdy podcast - “Forced Sterilization.” A conversation with Cara Santa Maria.