Books
The Invention of Infinite Growth: How Economists Forgot About the Natural World (book manuscript under contract with University of Chicago Press).
Routes of Power: Energy and Modern America (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014).
- Winner, 2015 Edelstein Prize from the Society for the History of Technology.
Articles
“Teaching the Environmental Humanities: International Perspectives and Practices” with Emily O’Gorman et al. Environmental Humanities 11 (2), 2019: 427-460.
“The Materiality of Energy” Canadian Journal of History / annals canadiennes d’histoire 53 (3), Winter, 2018: 378-394.
“Building History Enrollments Through Online Courses for the Professions: Lessons from Teaching the History of Engineering” The History Teacher 51 (4), August, 2018: 549-572.
“How Pipelines Constrict Oil Flows” Limn Issue 10: Chokepoints, January, 2018.
“Infrastructure and Democracy” with David Reinecke. Issues in Science and Technology 33 (2), Winter, 2017: 24-30. “Petromyopia: Oil and the Energy Humanities” Humanities 5 (2), June, 2016.
“Landscapes of Intensification: Transport and Energy in the U.S. Mid-Atlantic, 1820-1930” Journal of Transport History 35 (2), December, 2014: 236-41.
“History’s Contribution to Energy Research and Policy” with Richard F. Hirsh. Energy Research & Social Science 1 (1), March, 2014: 106-11.
“The British Shaping of America’s First Fossil Fuel Transition.” In “Energy (and) Colonialism, Energy (In)Dependence: Africa, Europe, Greenland, North America,” edited by Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga and Helmuth Trischler, RCC Perspectives 2014, no. 5, 27–34.
“Building More Just Energy Infrastructure: Lessons From the Past.” Science as Culture 22 (2), June, 2013: 157-63.
Christopher F. Jones Clark A. Miller Alastair Iles. The Social Dimensions of Energy Transitions. Science as Culture (2013).
Christopher F. Jones Shi-Loh Lin Kyoko Sato. Narrating Fukushima: Scales of a Nuclear Meltdown. East Asian Science, Technology, and Society (2013).
“Learning from Fukushima” with Sebastian Pfotenhauer, Kris Saha, and Sheila Jasanoff. Issues in Science and Technology 28 (3), Spring, 2012: 79-84.
“The Carbon-Consuming Home: Residential Markets and Energy Transitions.” Enterprise & Society 12 (4), December, 2011: 790-823.
Honorable Mention, 2012 Oxford Journals Article Prize for the best article published in the journal Enterprise & Society in the previous year.
“A Landscape of Energy Abundance: Anthracite Coal Canals and the Roots of American Fossil Fuel Dependence, 1820-1860.” Environmental History 15 (3), July, 2010: 449-84.
Winner, 2011 Joel A. Tarr Envirotech Prize for the best article published in the previous eighteen months in the relationships between technology and environment in history.
