“The Empire of Military Necessity: Law, Occupation, and Guides to a Massacre between the Civil and Philippine Wars.” (under review at The Journal of American History).

“Class/War: Can Labor and Military History Work Together?” for the “Up for Debate” feature, Labor: Studies in Working-Class History (forthcoming, 2025).

“Militarized Mobility: The U.S. Army and Chinese Exclusion in America’s Empire at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century,” in Global Labor Migration: New Directions, ed. Eileen Boris, Heidi Gottfried, Julie Greene, and Joo-Cheong Tham (Studies of World Migration series, ed. James Engelhardt and Madeline Hsu, University of Illinois Press, 2022), pp. 42-60.

“An Empire of Reconstructions: Cuba and the Transformation of American Military Occupation,” in Reconstruction and Empire: The Legacies of Abolition and Union Victory for an Imperial Age, ed. David Prior (Fordham University Press, 2021), pp. 297-315.

“Roads to Empire: American Military Public Works in Capitalist Transitions in U.S. and World History.” Journal of Historical Sociology, vol. 33, no. 1 (March 2020): 116-133.

“Crossing Islands and Oceans in Labor Histories of American Empire: Capital, Commodities, Coolies, and Consumers.” International Labor and Working-Class History, no. 91 (Spring 2017): 180-196.

“‘A military necessity which must be pressed’: The U.S. Army and Forced Road Labor in the Early American Colonial Philippines,” in Marcel van der Linden and Magaly Rodríguez, eds., On Coerced Labor: Work and Compulsion after Chattel Slavery (Brill, 2016), pp. 127–158.

“‘The Right Kind of Men’: Flexible Capacity, Chinese Exclusion, and the Imperial Politics of Maritime Labor Reform in the United States, 1898-1905.” Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, vol. 10, no. 4 (Winter 2013): 39-60.

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