Selected Publications
Peer Reviewed Articles and Book Chapters
“The Measures of Early Modern Technology: Europe, East Asia, and the Interpretive Flexibility of Smoothbore Ballistics,” Journal of World History (accepted, pending minor revisions).
“Kingpins at Court: Contraband Diplomacy between Korea, Japan, and Tsushima, 1607–1671,” The Journal of Asian Studies (in press).
“Korean Chronicles under a Macroscope: Towards a Digital Infrastructure in Premodern Korean Studies,” with Michelle Suh, Korean Studies (in press).
“How Network Analysis Uncovers International Networks of Smuggling History: Criminals in Nagasaki, Japan circa 1667,” Journal of Cultural Analytics 8, no. 1 (Feb. 2023): 1–20.
“Reverse Engineering as History and Method: The Portuguese Espingarda in Chosŏn Korea,” History & Technology 38, no. 2-3 (2023): 144-66.
“Cooking Niter, Prototyping Nature: Saltpeter and Artisanal Experiment in Korea, 1592–1635,” Isis: A Journal of the History of Science Society 113, no. 1 (March 2022): 1–21.
“Difference in an Age of Parity: Technology and Global Military History,” in The Military Revolution and Revolutions in Military Affairs, ed. Mark C. Fissel (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022), 29–64.
“Nature of Narye: Sound, Spectacle, and the Politics of Performance in Fifteenth-Century Korea, 1392–1592,” in Routledge Handbook of Asian Music: Cultural Intersections, ed. Tong Soon Lee (London: Routledge, 2021), 150–173.
“A Korean Military Revolution? Parallel Military Innovations in East Asia and Europe,” with Tonio Andrade and Kristen Cooper, Journal of World History 25, no. 1 (March 2014): 51–84.
“Big Heads and Buddhist Demons: The Korean Musketry Revolution and the Northern Expeditions of 1654 and 1658,” Journal of Chinese Military History 2, no. 2 (2013): 127–189.
Courses Taught
“Korean Civilization: (Undergraduate Lecture)
"Kitchen, Studio, Factory: Making in East Asia” (Undergraduate Seminar)
“Nature, Technology, and Medicine in Korea” (Undergraduate Research Seminar)