My research follows what moved across the early modern Atlantic, from plants and knowledge to disease, and asks how those crossings remade the people and places they connected.

• Book project

  A Deadly Decade

  Disease, empire, and Indigenous nations across the seventeenth-century Northeast.

• Digital edition

  The Jesuit Relations

  A semantic search engine for the Jesuit Relations that searches by meaning rather than keywords, opening new ways through these classic texts of French colonialism in North America.

• Digital reconstruction

  Reconstructing Boston’s 1721 Epidemic

  Finding the individual dead of a colonial smallpox year, and mapping them onto the early city.

• Digital map

  The Birth of Boston

  Mapping the growth of early Boston, with Matt Bowser and Molly Nebiolo.