Publications
Monographs
City of Second Sight: Nineteenth-Century Boston and the Making of American Visual Culture (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018).
The Clockwork Republic: Sociolegal Culture, Time, and Struggle in the United States, 1787-1860 (under contract with University of North Carolina Press).
Edited Volume
A Cultural History of Time in the Age of Empire and Industry (New York: Bloomsbury, 2026). [Volume 5 of Bloomsbury's six-volume A Cultural History of Time series, edited by Nick Yablon]
Special Issue
Alexis McCrossen and Justin Clark, eds., “Seeing Time,” Early Popular Visual Culture, May 2022.
Selected Articles and Book Chapters
“Souls in Debt: The Transformation of Carceral Punishment in Early Eighteenth-Century New England,” Journal of American History (accepted).
“The Visual in 19th Century American Popular Culture,” in The Cambridge History of American Popular Culture, ed. Lauren Rabinovitz (Cambridge University Press, 2025).
“Can We Teach Undergraduates the History of Time?,” Time & Society, July 2022.
“Seeing Time,” Early Popular Visual Culture, May 2022. [co-authored with Alexis McCrossen]
“Deploying ‘all-important moments’: Seeing Time in Duke University’s Collections of Early North American Advertisements,” Early Popular Visual Culture 19, May 2022. [co-authored with Alexis McCrossen]
“Motionless Pictures: The Waiting Public in Popular American Visual Culture, 1870-1930,” Early Popular Visual Culture, May 2022.
“The Secret of Quick Thinking: The Invention of Mental Speed in America, 1890-1920,” Time & Society, May 2020.
“From Global City to ‘City of Villages’: Tracing the State Discourse of Cosmopolitanism in Modern Singaporean History,” Journal of Intercultural Studies, July 2019.
“American Studies in Singapore,” Journal of American Studies, August 2018.
“Confronting the ‘Seeker of Newspaper Notoriety’: Pathological Lying, the Public, and the Press, 1890-1920,” American Journalism, May 2017.
“The Origins of Blind Autobiography in Visionary Antebellum New England,” The New England Quarterly, June 2014.
Recent Book Reviews and Review Essays
“Objects and Rituals of Time in the Nineteenth-Century United States,” Reviews in American History, June 2022.
Mark Braude, Kiki Man Ray: Art, Love, and Rivalry in 1920s Paris, Los Angeles Review of Books, September 20, 2022.
Robin Hemley, Borderline Citizen: Dispatches from the Outskirts of Nationhood, Los Angeles Review of Books, April 22, 2020.
Peter J. Brownlee, The Commerce of Vision: Optical Culture and Perception in Antebellum America, American Historical Review, February 2020.
Emily Ogden, Credulity: A Cultural History of US Mesmerism, Reviews in American History, June 2019.
William Krister Knapp, William James: Psychical Research and the Challenge of Modernity, Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, January 2018.
Corey Pein, Live Work Work Work Die: A Journey into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley, Los Angeles Review of Books, June 11, 2018.
Jessica Bruder, Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century, LA Review of Books, April 4, 2018.
Historical Novel
The Zero Season (Penguin Books, 2022)