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“Design Pedagogy’s Traces: Notes on Evidence and Method,” in After the Bauhaus, Before the Internet: A History of Graphic Design Pedagogy, ed. Geoff Kaplan (New York: no place press in association with The MIT Press, 2022): 28–41.

“‘The Indispensable Agent’: Coal and Its Displacements in Victorian Britain,” in “Materiality and Displacement,” eds. Sarah Lichtman and Jilly Traganou, special issue, Journal of Design History 34, no. 4 (September 2021): 212–26. Peer-reviewed.

“Constructed Pasts: Narratives of Home, History, and Otherness in LEGO,” in “Childhood, Consumption, Gender, and Public History,” ed. Lisa Jacobson, special issue, The Public Historian 43, no. 1 (February 2021): 39–61. Peer-reviewed.

With Catherine Whalen, “Paul J. Smith, 1931–2020,” Journal of Glass Studies 62 (2020): 304–8.

“The Fragile Frontier: Design in the Second Space Age,” in Designs for Different Futures, edited by Kathryn B. Hiesinger, Michelle Millar Fisher, et al. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press in association with the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Walker Art Center, and Art Institute of Chicago, 2019): 238–43.

“Building Kids: LEGO and the Commodification of Creativity” in Childhood by Design: Toys and the Material Culture of Childhood, 1700­–Present, edited by Megan Brandow-Faller (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018): 89–109.

With Rebecca Mir, “Teaching Tools: Progressive Pedagogy and the History of Construction Play,” in Understanding Minecraft: Essays on Play, Community and Possibilities, edited by Nate Garrelts (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2014): 38–56.

Oral history interview with Paul J. Smith (Director Emeritus, Museum of Arts and Design), April 24, 2013, in Bard Graduate Center Craft, Art and Design Oral History Project.

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Review of Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia by Victor Seow, Journal of Design History (forthcoming).

Review of Deconstructing LEGO: The Medium and Messages of LEGO Play by Jonathan Rey Lee, American Journal of Play 14, no. 1 (2022): 99–101.

Review of Victor Papanek: Designer for the Real World by Alison Clarke, caa.reviews (December 7, 2021).

Review of Space Settlements by Fred Scharmen, Journal of Design History 33, no. 4 (December 2020): 350–52.

Review of C.F.A. Voysey: Arts & Crafts Designer by Karen Livingstone, Max Donnelly, and Linda Parry; and The Decorative Designs of C.F.A. Voysey, revised edition, by Stuart Durant, Journal of Design History, Vol. 31, No. 2 (May 2018): 204–7.

“LEGO Play on Display: The Art of the Brick and The Collectivity Project,” Response: The Digital Journal of Popular Culture Scholarship, No. 1 (November 2016).

Review of Ireland: Crossroads of Art and Design, 1690–1840, Art Institute of Chicago, The Magazine of the Decorative Arts Trust, Summer 2015: 10.

“More than the Money Shot: Architectural Drawing Revisited” (review of Aesthetics / Anesthetics at Storefront for Art and Architecture), Point of View (blog), Metropolis, July 24, 2012.

“Straphanger [by Taras Grescoe] Reminds Us Walkable Cities Are Possible—and Necessary,” Point of View (blog), Metropolis, July 18, 2012.

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“Circumventive Organs,” “Cryopreservation Alert Jewelry,” and “Platinum City,” in Designs for Different Futures, eds. Kathryn B. Hiesinger, Michelle Millar Fisher, et al. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press in association with the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Walker Art Center, and Art Institute of Chicago, 2019): 27; 86; 249.

165 entries on architecture, industrial design, graphic design, photography, and moving image works for M+ Museum online collection database (uncredited freelance), 2018–20.

“Art Colonies,” “Art Deco,” “Arts and Crafts Movement,” “Arts of Wharton Esherick,” and “Ceramics” in The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia, edited by Charlene Mires (Camden, NJ: Rutgers University-Camden, 2009–), 2015–19. Peer-reviewed.

“Biographies,” in Out of Hand: Materializing the Postdigital, edited by Ronald T. Labaco (New York: Museum of Arts and Design; London: Black Dog Publishing, 2013): 286–95.

“Object Lessons,” Metropolis, October 2012: 23–24.

“Robots Revisited,” MADblog, Museum of Arts and Design, August 7, 2012 (defunct site; archived from the original).

“The Responsibility of Discarding Materials Belongs to Everyone,” Point of View (blog), Metropolis, August 31, 2012.

“The Other Social Network: Public Architecture’s Open Space Strategy”, Point of View (blog), Metropolis, July 20, 2012.

“A New York Year: The Municipal Art Society MASterworks Awards” Point of View (blog), Metropolis, June 18, 2012.

“Fuller Institute Awards Alternative Green Building Standard,” Point of View (blog), Metropolis, June 8, 2012.

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