Writing
Book
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Race in a Godless World: Atheism, Race, and Civilization, 1850-1914 (Manchester University Press and New York University Press, 2019).
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Academic Journal Articles
“ ‘The Curse of Race Prejudice’: Debates about Racial ‘Prejudice’ in the United States, c. 1750-1900.” Patterns of Prejudice, Vol. 55, No. 1 (2021): pp. 25-46.
https://doi.org/10.1080/0031322X.2021.1898812
“Defining and Redefining Atheism: Dictionary and Encyclopedia Entries for ‘Atheism’ and Their Critics from the Early Modern Period to the Present,” Intellectual History Review, Vol. 30, No. 2 (2020): pp. 253-271.
https://doi.org/10.1080/17496977.2019.1642582
“Rethinking the Histories of Atheism, Unbelief, and Nonreligion: An Interdisciplinary Perspective,” Interdisciplinarity and Methodological Pluralism: The Practice of Intellectual History and Conceptual History, a special issue of Global Intellectual History (published online, 19 August 2019).
https://doi.org/10.1080/23801883.2019.1657640
“Unclasping the Eagle’s Talons: Mark Twain, American Freethought, and the Responses to Imperialism,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, Vol. 17, No. 3, (2018): pp. 524-545.
https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537781418000099
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“Atheism and Polygenesis in the Nineteenth Century: Charles Bradlaugh’s Racial Anthropology,” Modern Intellectual History, Vol. 16, No. 3 (November 2019): pp. 835-861.
https://doi.org/10.1017/S1479244317000622
“E.D. Morel (1873-1924), the Congo Reform Association, and the History of Human Rights,” Britain and the World, Vol. 9, No. 2, (September 2016): pp. 213-235.
https://doi.org/10.3366/brw.2016.0238
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Contact me if you would like a PDF for any of these articles.
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Book Chapters
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“Histories of Atheism: Key Questions and Disputes,” in The Cambridge History of Atheism, eds. Stephen Bullivant and Michael Ruse (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021): pp. 14-33.​
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Other Articles
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The Weirdness of Being Secular
OnlySky (August 2022)
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Review of Joseph Blankholm, The Secular Paradox: On the Religiosity of the Not Religious (NYU Press, 2022)
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Trust Us: The Problem with Crypto-Billionaires and Effective Altruism
OnlySky (July 2022)
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Secularism and the Limits of Progress?
The Freethinker (June 2022)
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Review of Patrick Corbeil, Empire and Progress in the Victorian Secularist Movement: Imagining a Secular World (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
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How God Was Wedged into Secular Canada’s Constitution
OnlySky (May 2022)
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How Three Media Revolutions Transformed the History of Atheism
The Freethinker (April 2022)
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The Cannibal Club: The Intellectual Dark Web of the 19th Century (subscription required)
Arc Digital (August 2021)
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Reading John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty in the Age of "Cancel Culture" and "Fake News"
Liberal Currents (March 2021)
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Nonreligious Americans: The Key Demographic That No One is Talking About (with Todd Tavares)
The Humanist (January 2021)
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Arc Digital (November 2020)
When Racists Called Themselves “Racists”
Arc Digital (September 2020)
New Atheism and Me: Personal Reflections on the Rise and Fall of the Movement
Medium (August 2020)
A History of the Word “Atheism” and the Politics of Dictionaries
Nonreligion and Secularity Research Network Blog (January 2020)
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Moncure Conway, Freethought, and Race in the Nineteenth Century
Ethical Record (Winter 2019): 10-12
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Race in a Godless World: Atheism, Race, and Civilization, 1850-1914 – An Introduction
Nonreligion and Secularity Research Network Blog (August 2019)
Atheism, Race, and the Freethinker at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century
The Freethinker (July 2019)
Towards a History of the Term “Racism”
Monitor: Global Intelligence on Racism (May 2019)
An Atheist With a Tall Hat On: The Forgotten History of Agnosticism
The Humanist (February 2019)
* French translation by Michel Virard, “L’histoire oubliée de l’agnosticisme : un agnostique est-il un athée avec un chapeau haut-de-forme ?,” Le Québec Humaniste, vol 14, no 2 (2019): 1-3.
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Mark Twain, Freethought, and Anti-Imperialism
The Truth Seeker (September-December 2018): 8-15 (password: irreverent)
Freethinkers and the Fight Against Racism
The Truth Seeker (January-April 2018): 30-36
Exploring the Deep Roots of Scottish Secularism
CommonSpace (March 2016)
The Terms of Unbelief: An Atheist By Any Other Name
The GC Advocate, CUNY Graduate Centre newspaper (February 2015)
Nonreligion and Secularity Research Network Blog (May 2014)
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Book Reviews
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Review of Christopher Grasso, Skepticism and American Faith: From the Revolution to the Civil War (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019) in American Religion, Vol. 2, no. 1 (2020): 189-91.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/amerreli.2.1.19
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Review of Paul Harvey, Christianity and Race in the American South: A History (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2016), Global Intellectual History, Vol. 4, No. 1 (2019): 90-92.
https://doi.org/10.1080/23801883.2018.1432141
“Atheism: Whence and Whither?” (Review Essay), History of European Ideas, Vol. 43, No. 6 (2017): pp. 691-697.
(Review of Stephen LeDrew, The Evolution of Atheism: The Politics of a Modern Movement (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016); Nick Spencer, Atheists: The Origin of the Species (London: Bloomsbury, 2014); and Mitchell Stephens, Imagine There’s No Heaven: How Atheism Helped Create the Modern World (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).)
https://doi.org/10.1080/01916599.2016.1209364