Professor
Margaret Byrne Professor of History
Education
PhD, University of California, Berkeley
BA, Yale University
Research Interests
America Since 1607
- 19th Century
- urban
- cultural
Representative Publications
Books
The Week: A History of the Unnatural Rhythms That Made Us Who We Are(link is external), Yale University Press, 2021.
With Rebecca McLennan, Becoming America: A History for the 21st Century(link is external), McGraw-Hill, 2015.
The Postal Age: The Emergence of Modern Communications in Nineteenth-Century America(link is external), University of Chicago Press, 2006.
City Reading: Written Words and Public Spaces in Antebellum New York(link is external), Columbia University Press, 1998.
Articles
"How We Became Weekly(link is external)," Aeon (November 30, 2021)
"Tick, Tock, Tuesday: Serial Timekeeping and the History of the Modern Week," Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 40:5, 509-524, DOI: 10.1080/08905495.2018.1516964(link is external)
“Sleep and Synchronicity(link is external),” Public Books (April 2015)
“New York, Capital of the Jews(link is external),” Tablet (January 28, 2013)
“Dollars and Sex(link is external),” Public Books (February 2012)
“On Forms and Media(link is external),” Representations 104 (Winter 2008)
