Scholarly Articles
‘Urban history as urgent work, an argument for disciplinary promiscuity’, Urban History, 2025. (Published Open Access)
‘Mastering the Nile? Confidence and anxiety in D. S. George’s photographs of the first Aswan Dam, 1899-1912’, Environmental History, 2020 (Open Access version available on HCommons Core)
Public writing
‘The city is a lie’, Aeon, 2020.
Book chapters
‘River Lines and Railway Lines: Colonial military technonatures in the making of Sudan’s Capital Region’, in Thelle and Høghøj (eds), Environment, Agency, and Technology in Urban Life since c.1750: Technonatures in the Global North, Palgrave Macmillan 2024
Book reviews
Lia Paradis, Imperial Culture and the Sudan, for European Review of History – Revue européenne d’histoire, 2021
Peter H. Christensen, Germany and the Ottoman Railways: Art, Empire, and Infrastructure, for ABE Journal: Architecture Beyond Europe, 17, 2020
James Whidden, Egypt: British colony, imperial capital, for Rethinking History, 24, 2020