Selected articles, chapters
“Agency’s Moral Universe,” Journal of Social History 57:2 (Winter 2023).
“Religion, Spirituality, and Renown,” in Volume V: A Cultural History of Fame in the Age of Revolution, Eva Giloi, ed. (Bloomsbury, forthcoming).
“Witchdoctors Drive Sports Cars, Science Takes the Bus: An ‘Anti-Superstition’ Alliance across the Cold War Divide,” in Paul Betts and S.A. Smith, eds., Science, Religion and Communism in Cold War Europe (Routledge, 2016).
“A Messiah after Hitler, and His Miracles: Postwar Popular Apocalypticism,” in Monica Black and Eric Kurlander, eds., Revisiting the 'Nazi Occult’: Histories, Realities, Legacies (Camden House, 2015).
“The Ghosts of War,” in Michael Geyer and Adam Tooze, eds., Cambridge History of World War II, Total War: Economy, Society, Culture at War, Vol. 3, Total War; Economy, Society, and Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2015).
“Expellees Tell Tales: Partisan Blood Drinkers and the Cultural History of Violence after WWII,” History & Memory 25:1 (Spring/Summer 2013): 77-110.
“Miracles in the Shadow of the Economic Miracle: The ‘Supernatural 50s’ in West Germany, Journal of Modern History 84:4 (December 2012): 833-860.
“Смерть в Германии Между Двумя Мировыми Войнами” (Death in Germany between Two World Wars), Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie / New Literary Observer, Special issue: “Semiotics of August in the XXth Century: The Impact of Global Cataclysms on Everyday Practices,” Vol. 116 (September 2012): 308-324.
“The Supernatural and the Poetics of History,” The Hedgehog Review: Critical Reflections on Contemporary Culture 13:3 (fall 2011).
“Death and the Making of West Berlin, 1948-1961,” German History 27:1 (January 2009).
“Death in Berlin, 1933-1961,” Bulletin of the German Historical Institute 42 (Spring 2008).
“Reburying and Rebuilding: Reflecting on Proper Burial in Berlin After ‘Zero Hour,’” in Between Mass Death and Individual Loss: The Place of the Dead in Twentieth-Century Germany, Alon Confino, Paul Betts, and Dirk Schumann, eds. (Berghahn, 2008).
Some shorter pieces
“Die Kakteen vom Wannsee,” Zeitschrift für Ideengeschichte 17:2 (Summer 2023). Translation: Christiana Goldmann.
“Melchers’s Ghosts,” Cabinet Magazine’s Kiosk, September 9, 2021.
“How Postwar Germany’s Witchcraft Trials Can Help Us Understand QAnon And Other Conspiracy Theories,” Religion Dispatches, March 23, 2021. (Also in German translation by Tobias Eberhard: “Wie die Hexenprozesse des Nachkriegsdeutschlands uns helfen können, QAnon und andere Verschwörungserzählungen zu verstehen,“ Belltower: Netz für digitale Zivilgesellschaft, March 14, 2022.)
“Notes on the Interregnum,” Sewanee Review 129:1 (Spring 2021): 357–365.
“Phänomene des Irrationalen. Wunderheiler, Hexen und Verschwörungsmythen,“ Geschichte der Gegenwart, December 20, 2020. Translation: Svenja Goltermann.
"The Minister of Ministrations," Sewanee Review 126:2 (Spring 2018).
“The Cure Bringer,” The Berlin Journal (November 2014).
Podcasts, interviews, radio
Interview with Kristina Safonova for Meduza (in Russian).
Podcast, “Hexer und Heiler: Eine Schattengeschichte der Deutschen,” Bayerische Rundfunk, radioWissen (Germany), November 3, 2021.
Interview with Christian Staas, “Heilung! Heiling!” DIE ZEIT 43, October 20, 2021.
Interview with Eva-Maria Schnurr, “Warum Richter noch in der Bundesrepublik über Hexerei urteilen mussten,” SPIEGEL Geschichte 5/2021.
Interview, “Culture File,” RTÉ Lyric FM (Ireland), April 17, 2021.
Interview, “Confronting History” series, George L. Mosse Program in History, University of Wisconsin, Madison, June 30, 2021.
Interview, “Zeitfragen,“ Deutschlandfunk Kultur (Germany), March 31, 2021.
Interview, “The Morning Show,” Greater Newburyport (Mass., USA) Community Media, February 24, 2021.
Podcast, “A Demon-Haunted Land,” New Books in History, December 29, 2020.
Interview, “A Demon-Haunted Land,” Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, December 8, 2020.
Podcast, “The Ghosts of Nazi Germany,” Smarty Pants, American Scholar, November 9, 2020.
Podcast, “Death in Berlin,” New Books in History, April 27, 2012.
New Books in History podcasts
Tore C. Olsson, Agrarian Crossings: Reformers and the Remaking of the US & Mexican Countryside
Matthew Bryan Gillis, Hersey and Dissent in the Carolingian Empire: The Case of Gottschalk of Orbais
Benjamin Bryce, To Belong in Buenos Aires: Germans, Argentines, and the Rise of a Pluralist Society
Alice Weinreb, Modern Hungers: Food & Power in Twentieth-Century Germany
James Q. Whitman, Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law
William Davenport Mercer, Diminishing the Bill of Rights: Barron v. Baltimore and the Foundations of American Liberty
Eric Kurlander, Hitler's Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich
J. Laurence Hare, Excavating Nations: Archaeology, Museums, and the German-Danish Borderlands
Ellen Boucher, Empire's Children: Child Emigration, Welfare, and the Decline of the British World, 1869-1967
Sean Forner, German Intellectuals and the Challenge of Democratic Renewal: Culture and Politics after 1945
Luke E. Harlow, Religion, Race and the Making of Confederate Kentucky, 1830-1880
H. Glenn Penny, Kindred by Choice: Germans and American Indians since 1800
Karrin Hanshew, Terror and Democracy in West Germany
Jeff Bowersox, Raising Germans in the Age of Empire: Youth and Colonial Culture, 1871-1914
Kate Brown, Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, & the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters
Michael D. Bailey, Fearful Spirits, Reasoned Follies: The Boundaries of Superstition in Late Medieval Europe