Peer reviewed publications:
“The Perfect Solution: How trans fats became the healthy replacement for saturated fats,” in Technology and Culture, 2012, 53(1): 94-119.
“We Spent a Million Bucks and Then We Had To Do Something: The Unexpected Implications of Industry Involvement in Trans Fats Research.” Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society, 31 (6): 460-471.
“Technique and Technology in the Kitchen: Comparing Resistance to Municipal Trans Fat and Foie Gras Bans” coauthor with Michaela DeSoucey in Studies in Law, Politics, and Society 2010, 51: 185–218.
“The NYU Strike as Case Study.” Workplace 2007, 14: 59–66.
“Make Me Feel Mighty Real: Gay Female-to-Male Transgenderists Negotiating Sex, Gender, and Sexuality.” Sexualities 2006, 9(1): 57–75.
“Seeing in Genes: Mapping the Rice Genome in China,” translated into Spanish in La Revista Iberoamericana de Ciencia, Tecnologia y Sociedad 1(3): 131–156.
Reports and Other Writing
“Food, Drugs and TV: The Social Study of Corporate Science” coauthor with Bart Penders in Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society 31 (6), 431-434.
Co-editor with Bart Penders, Special issue on the Social Study of Corporate science in the Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society.
“The Environmental Impact of Mining Metals and Gemstones: The Case for Putting Jewelry Back into Circulation,” 2010, report coauthored with Asif Halim and Doug Guthrie for Circa Jewelry.
“The Best Way to Get Good Taste.” Post Road 2010, volume 19, pp. 49-54.
“How to be Allergic to Everything.” Ars Medica 2010, volume 6, number 2, pp. 60-63.
“Welcome to Make It Happen,” with Tracy Gilman and Lauren Silberman. In The Swedish Dance History, volume 2, INPEX, Stockholm, 2010.
“Salt’s Fat Chance.” Chemical Heritage Magazine 2009, 27(3): 38-39.
“Fear of Frying: A Brief History of Trans Fats.” N+1 magazine online, May 21, 2007.
New York Times letters to the editor: “Running the Cholesterol Maze” (2008) and “Graduate Students And Real Estate” (2006).
Art, Radio, Etc.:
Co-host with Sonya Rhee of Silk Road Food & Wine, a series of interviews about food, wine and spices on Heritage Radio Network, 2011.
Urban therapist, Pedro Reyes’ Sanatorium, The Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2011.
Make it Happen Instigator and Facilitator at Flux Factory, Figment, and other venues, 2010-2011.
Participant-Interpreter, Tino Sehgal’s This Progress, The Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2010.
Chemical Heritage Foundation Distillations Podcast Series, Episode 82, “Food Myths,” November 20, 2009.
Reviews:
Review of “Empty Pleasures: The Story of Artificial Sweeteners from Saccharin to Splenda” by Carolyn de la Peña, in Technology and Culture 2012, 52(4): 849-850.
Review of “Decentering Biotechnology: Assemblages Built and Assemblages Masked” by Michael Carolan, in Contemporary Sociology 2011, 40(6): 695-697.
Review of “Breathing Space: How Allergies Shape Our Lives and Landscapes” by Gregg Mitman, in Science as Culture 2010, 19(3):393.
Review of “Cultivating Science, Harvesting Power: Science and Industrial Agriculture in California” by Christopher R. Henke, in Chemical Heritage Magazine 2009, 27(1): 47.
Review of “The Toothpick: Technology and Culture” by Henry Petroski, in Food, Culture and Society 2008, 11(4): 533-536.
Review of “In Defense of Food” by Michael Pollan, in Time Out New York Issue 639: December 27, 2007–January 2, 2008.
Review of “Microtrends” by Mark J. Penn, in Time Out New York Issue 624: September 13–19, 2007.
Review of “Alice Waters and Chez Panisse” by Thomas McNamee, in Time Out New York Issue 599: March 22–28, 2007.
Review of “Terrors of the Table: The Curious History of Nutrition” by William Gratzer, in Time Out New York Issue 533: December 15–28, 2005.
Review of “The Rise of Viagra” by Meika Loe, in Science as Culture 2005, 14(3): 293–296.
Review of “The World Turned: Essays on Gay History, Politics, and Culture” by John D’Emilio, in The Archives of Sexual Behavior 2005, 34(6): 709–710.
Review of “Beyond the Closet: The Transformation of Gay and Lesbian Life” by Steven Seidman, in Sexuality and Culture 2005, 9(1): 98–100.
Review of “Strip City” by Lily Burana, in Sexuality and Culture 2002, 6(4): 107–108.
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