- “Zoo Time.” A Wilder Kingdom: Rethinking the Wild in Zoos, Wildlife Parks, and Beyond. Ed. Ben A. Minteer and Harry W. Greene. New York: Columbia University Press. Pp. 155-68.
- “Imagining Zoos.” Captures. Figures, théories et pratiques de l’imaginaire 7.2 (Nov. 2022). Special Issue: Figures animales. Interprétations et illusions. Ed. Violette Pouillard and Anne-Sophie Coiffet.
- “The Elephant in the Archive.” Traces of the Animal Past: Methodological Challenges in Animal History. Ed. Jennifer Bonnell and Sean Kheraj. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2022. Pp. 217-31.
- “The Antelope Collectors.” Zoo Studies: A New Humanities. Ed. Tracy McDonald and Daniel Vandersommers. Kingston, Ontario: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2019. 45-64.
- “(Re)Introducing the Przewalski’s Horse.” The Ark and Beyond: The Evolution of Zoo and Aquarium Conservation. Ed. Ben A. Minteer, Jane Maienschein, and James Collins. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. 77-89.
- “Mammoths in the Landscape.” Routledge Handbook of Human-Animal Studies. Ed. Susan McHugh and Garry Marvin. London: Routledge, 2014. 10-22.
- “A Hero’s Death.” Animal Acts: Performing Species Today. Ed. Una Chaudhuri and Holly Hughes. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2013. 182-88.
- “Preserving History: Collecting and Displaying in Carl Akeley’s In Brightest Africa.” Animals on Display: The Creaturely in Museums, Zoos, and Natural History. Ed. Karen Rader, Liv Emma Thorsen, and Adam Dodd. State College: Penn State UP, 2013. 58-73.
- “Trophies and Taxidermy.” Gorgeous Beasts: Animal Bodies in Historical Perspective. Ed. Joan Landes, Paula Young Lee, and Paul Youngquist. State College: Penn State University Press, 2012. 117-136.
- “Touching Animals: The Search for a ‘Deeper Understanding’ of Animals.” Beastly Natures: Animals, Humans, and the Study of History. Ed. Dorothee Brantz. Charlottesville: U of Virginia P. 2010. 38-58.
- “Tiere berühren: Vierbeinige Darsteller und ihr Publikum.” Tierische Geschichte: Die Beziehung von Mensch und Tier in der Kultur der Moderne. Ed. Dorothee Brantz and Christof Mauch. Paderborn: Schöningh Verlag, 2009. 19-38. Translation of “Touching Animals” (2010).
- Zoos, the Academy, and Captivity.” PMLA. 124.2 (March 2009): 480-86.
- “The Eyes of Elephants: Changing Perceptions.” Tidsskrift for kulturforskning 7.3 (2008): 39-50.
- “Elephants, Ethics, and History.” Elephants and Ethics: Toward a Morality of Coexistence. Ed. Chris Wemmer and Catherine A. Christen. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP. 2008. 100-119.
- “Carl Hagenbecks utstillinger av mennesker.” Ottar. Populærvitenskapelig tidskrift fra Tromsø Museum – Univeristetsmuseet. Nr. 167 (2007): 18-24.
- “How the Caged Bird Sings: Animals and Entertainment.” A Cultural History of Animals in the Age of Empire. Ed. Kathleen Kete. New York: Berg, 2007. 95-112.
- “Killing Elephants: Pathos and Prestige in the Nineteenth Century.” Victorian Animal Dreams: Representations of Animals in Victorian Literature and Culture. Ed. Deborah Denenholz Morse and Martin Danahay. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007. 53-63.
- “Why Look at Elephants?” Worldviews Environment, Culture, Religion. Guest ed. Erica Fudge. 9.2 (summer 2005): 166-83.
- “Introduction: Animals and Zoos and History.” Captive Beauty: Zoo Portraits by Frank Noelker. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 2004. xiii-xxviii.
- “Introduction.” Representing Animals. Ed. Nigel Rothfels. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. vii-xv.
- “Immersed with Animals.” Representing Animals. Ed. Nigel Rothfels. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. 199-223.
- “Die Revolution des Herrn Hagenbeck” in: Mensch, Tier, und Zoo. Der Tiergarten Schönbrunn im internationalen Vergleich vom 18. Jahrhundert bis Heute. Ed. Mitchell G. Ash. Vienna: Boehlau-Verlag, 2008. Translation of “Immersed with Animals” (2002).
- ““Immersi con gli animali” in Animot. L’altra filosofia 1.2 (December 2014): 80-106. Translation of “Immersed with Animals” (2002).
- “Catching Animals.” Animals in Human Histories: The Mirror of Nature and Culture. Ed. Mary Henninger-Voss. Rochester: U of Rochester P, 2002. 182-228.
- “Aztecs, Aborigines, and Ape-People: Science and Freaks in Germany, 1850-1900.” Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body. Ed. Rosemarie Garland Thomson. Buffalo: New York UP, 1996. 158-72.
Reviews
- Review of Roel Sterckx, Martina Siebert, and Dagmar Schäfer, eds., Animals Through Chinese History: Earliest Times to 1911, American Historical Review 125.5 (December 2020): 1836-1838.
- “Swimming with Whales and History.” Review of Jason M. Colby, Orca: How We Came to Know and Love the Ocean’s Greatest Predator, Humanimalia 12.1 (Fall 2020): 367-70.
- Review of Kristin Guest and Monica Mattfeld, eds., Equestrian Cultures: Horses, Human Society, and the Discourse of Modernity, Eighteenth Century Studies 53.4 (Summer 2020): 735-37.
- “Zoo Stories.” Review of John Bierlein and Staff of HistoryLink, Woodland: The Story of the Animals and People of Woodland Park Zoo, and Andrew Flack, The Wild Within: Histories of a Landmark British Zoo, Humanimalia 11.2 (Spring 2020): 219-22.
- Review of Gary Bruce, Through the Lion Gate: A History of the Berlin Zoo, German Studies Review 41.2 (May 2018): 402-403.
- Review of Peta Tait, Fighting Nature: Travelling Menageries, Animal Acts and War Shows, Animal Studies Journal 6.1 (2017): 182-184.
- Review of London Zoo and the Victorians: 1828-1859 by Takashi Ito. Journal of Interdisciplinary History 45.4 (Spring 2015): 576-77.
- Review of Lynn K. Nyhart, Modern Nature: The Rise of the Biological Perspective in Germany, American Historical Review 115.4 (October 2010): 1235.
- Review of Servants of Ganesh: Inside the Elephant Stableby Mark Dugas & Piers Locke. Humanimalia 2.1 (Fall 2010): np.
- Review of Carl Hagenbeck’s Empire of Entertainments by Eric Ames. The German Quarterly 83.3 (Summer 2010): 374-75.
- Review of Valuing Animals: Veterinarians and Their Patients in Modern America by Susan D. Jones. American Historical Review 109.2 (April 2004): 566-67.
- Review of Elephant Slaves and Pampered Parrots: Exotic Animals in Eighteenth Century Paris by Louise E. Robbins. Isis: Journal of the History of Science Society 94.2 (June 2003): 383-84.
- Review of Cultural Studies of Modern Germany: History, Representation, and Nationhood by Russell A. Berman. Discourse 17.3 (1995): 158-62.
Other Writing
- “Afterword.” Composing Worlds with Elephants: Interdisciplinary Dialogues. Ed. Nicolas Lainé , Paul G. Keil, and Khatijah Rahmat. Marseille: French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development, 2023. Pp. 331-34.
- “Can Zoos Actually Save Species from Extinction?” TED-Ed. April, 2023. 205K views as of August 17, 2023.
- With Hannaleigh Rose Jennings, “Das Nachttierhaus und der Affe: Eine kurze Entstehungsgeschichte.” Tiergarten: Magazine für Zoointeressierte 2|2022: 27-35.
- “Captivity without End: The Delusion of Freeing the Elephants.” Culturico, June 29, 2021.
- “Prison, Spectacle, Refuge: Have Modern Zoos Really Put Their History behind Them?” Aeon, 19 Sept. 201
- “Foreword,” Increasing Legal Rights for Zoo Animals: Justice on the Ark, ed. Jesse Donahue (Lanham: Lexington Press, 2017), ix-xi.
- “Will the End of Breeding Orcas at SeaWorld Change Much for Animals in Captivity?” The Conversation (US). March 22, 2016
- “Foreword.” Year of the Bird: A Celebration of Hybridity. Exhbition Catalog. Maitland, NSW: Maitland Regional Art Gallery, 2013.
- “Reflections on the Vitrine.” Interview with Ingvild Kaldal. Art and Research. 4.1 (Summer 2011). Online.
- “Foreword.” The Other Animals. Ed. Amy Nelson and Jane Costlow. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010. ix-xi.
- “‘And the lion will lay down with the lamb’: Carl Hagenbeck’s Visions of Paradise.” Bandwagon: The Journal of the Circus Historical Society 45.4 (July-August 2001): 4-11.
- “Circus Nights.” Mouth to Mouth 1 (2001): 92-96.