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, Yale University Press, 2021.
With Rebecca McLennan, Becoming America: A History for the 21st Century, McGraw-Hill, 2015.
The Postal Age: The Emergence of Modern Communications in Nineteenth-Century America, University of Chicago Press, 2006.
City Reading: Written Words and Public Spaces in Antebellum New York, Columbia University Press, 1998.
Articles
"How We Became Weekly," 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
“Sleep and Synchronicity,” Public Books (April 2015)
“New York, Capital of the Jews,” Tablet (January 28, 2013)
“Dollars and Sex,” Public Books (February 2012)
“On Forms and Media,” Representations 104 (Winter 2008)
