‘The Workplace of Enlightenment: Colin Campbell and the Repurposing of Paper’, Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies (2025), forthcoming (accepted 19 December 2024).
‘The Student as Broker: Friedrich Wilhelm Roloff and the Translation of Early Modern Biblical Scholarship’, Erudition and the Republic of Letters, 8/1 (2023), pp. 36–78.
‘Sharing Marks in Early Modern Books’, Imprimatur, NF 27 (2021), pp. 31–52.
Book Chapters
‘Türhüter des Wissens: Julius Carl Schläger und die europäische Numismatik im späten 18. Jahrhundert’, in Martin Mulsow and Dirk Sangmeister (eds.), Aufklärung und Residenzstadt – Das intellektuelle Gotha um 1800 (Göttingen: Wallstein, 2025), forthcoming (in press).
‘Catalogues in Catalogues: Imitation and Competition in Early Modern Book Collecting’, in Arthur der Weduwen, Andrew Pettegree and Graeme Kemp (eds.), Book Trade Catalogues in Early Modern Europe (Leiden: Brill, 2021), pp. 399–424.
Reviews & Review Essays
Review Essay on Matthew Daniel Eddy, Media and the Mind: Art, Science, and Notebooks as Paper Machines, 1700–1830 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023), History of Universities, forthcoming.
Review on Martin Mulsow, Fremdprägung. Münzwissen in Zeiten der Globalisierung (Berlin: Matthes & Seitz, 2023), Journal of the History of Collections, 36/2 (2024), pp. 361–362.
Review on Vera Keller, The Interlopers: Early Stuart Projects and the Undisciplining of Knowledge (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023), Intellectual History Review, 34/4 (2024), pp. 882–885.
Review on Philip Beeley, Yelda Nasifoglu and Benjamin Wardhaugh (eds.), Reading Mathematics in Early Modern Europe: Studies in the Production, Collection, and Use of Mathematical Books (New York: Routledge, 2021), British Journal for the History of Mathematics, 38/1 (2023), pp. 55–57.
Digital Publications
‘Wettstein’s Friends: Migration and Early Modern Confessional Networks’, SwissBritNet Stories, Blog Article (Basel: University of Basel, 2024).
‘Brokering the Enlightenment: Scotland and the World’, IASH Blog, Workshop Report (Edinburgh: The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, 2023).
‘Annotiertes Wissen: Lehrbücher und die Vermittlung von Information in der Aufklärung’, SPK-Forschungsnewsletter, 06 (2023) & Blog Article (Berlin: Berlin State Library, 2023).
‘Reading Descartes: The Case of Colin Campbell’, Preserving the World’s Rarest Books, Blog Article (St Andrews: University of St Andrews, 2020).
‘William Sanders: A Life of Science and Satire’, Preserving the World’s Rarest Books, Blog Article (St Andrews: University of St Andrews, 2019).
‘Herzog Augusts Bücherradkatalog. Artefakt und Mythos’, Exhibition at the Herzog August Library, Digital Presentation (Wolfenbüttel: Herzog August Library, 2017).
Notes & Miscellanies
‘The Ott Papers, Anglo-Swiss Families and Early Modern Huguenot Networks’, The Huguenot Society Journal, 37 (2024), pp. 84–87.
‘Transnational Service: John Henry Ott and the Professionalisation of Information Brokerage, 1716–1743’, Swiss Association of Medieval and Early Modern English Studies (SAMEMES), Eighth Biennial Conference: ‘Medieval and Early Modern Swiss-British Relations’, University of Basel, September 2024.
‘Wrong Move: Johann Conrad Werndly and the Microhistory of Weak Ties’, Symposium: ‘Agents and Messengers in the Early Modern History of Information’, Global Information History Workshop, co-hosted by the University of Basel, Harvard University, the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and the University of Zurich, July 2024.
‘Collecting the Renaissance Library: Historia litteraria and the Early Modern University’, part of the panel ‘Scholarly Collections and Historical Practices: From Renaissance Libraries to Empirical Natural History’ of the 11th annual meeting of Scientiae: Disciplines of Knowing, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, June 2024.
‘Reisende Sekretäre: Schweizer Geistliche und die Organisation der Aufklärung’, Kolloquium Ältere Schweizer Geschichte: ‘Neue Forschungen zur Älteren Schweizer Geschichte und Geschichte der Frühen Neuzeit’, Institute of History, University of Bern, May 2024.
‘The Workplace of Enlightenment: Colin Campbell and the Repurposing of Paper’, part of the panel ‘Workforce, Labour and Theory’ at the 53rd Annual Conference ‘Work and Play’ of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (BSECS), St Hugh’s College, University of Oxford, January 2024.
‘Collective Knowledge: Ezekiel Spanheim and the Production of Numismatic Textbooks’, paper at the Summer School 2023 ‘Coins and More. Travelling Objects in Early Globalisation’ directed by Martin Mulsow at Gotha Research Centre, University of Erfurt, August–September 2023.
‘Collecting the Renaissance Library: Historia litteraria and Early Modern Librarianship’, part of the panel ‘Citation and Reputation in the History of Information’ at the annual conference ‘Affordances and Interfaces: Textual Interactions Past, Present and Future’ by the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP), University of Otago, June 2023.
‘The Letter as Notebook: Colin Campbell and the Enlightenment Household’, paper at the workshop ‘Brokering the Enlightenment: Scotland and the World’ at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH), co-organised by Philippe Bernhard Schmid and Richard Oosterhoff, University of Edinburgh, June 2023.
‘Brokerage & Materiality: The Scottish Enlightenment and the New Materialisms’, invited paper at the research seminar of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH), University of Edinburgh, May 2023.
‘Broker of Practice: Colin Campbell and the Early Modern Mathematical Community’, invited paper at the History of Science, Medicine and Technology Research Group, University of Edinburgh, April 2023.
‘The Reuse of Library Catalogues in Eighteenth-Century Germany: The Case of Julius Carl Schlaeger’, invited paper at the History of Libraries seminar at the Institute of English Studies, the Institute of Historical Research, the Warburg Institute and the Library & Information History Group of CILIP, University of London, March 2023.
‘Journals as Teaching Aids: Student Note-Taking and Mathematical Culture in the Early Scottish Enlightenment’, invited paper at the research seminar of Isobel Falconer at the study centre for the History of Mathematics, University of St Andrews, December 2022.
‘Die Sammler und der Sammelband: Historia litteraria und die Bibliotheken der Frühen Neuzeit’, invited paper at the ‘Wissenswerkstatt’ of the Berlin State Library, November 2022.
‘Collections, Catalogues and Coins: Julius Carl Schlaeger (1706–1786) and the Bibliotheca Numismatica’, invited paper at the intellectual history research seminar of Martin Mulsow at Gotha Research Centre, University of Erfurt, May 2022.
‘Friedrich Wilhelm Roloff (1714–1741) and Early Modern Student Translation: A Very Short Introduction’, invited paper at the peer seminar of Daniela Hacke, Free University of Berlin, February 2022.
‘Student Note-Taking and Mathematical Diagrams at the University of St Andrews’, part of the panel ‘Mathematicians, Astronomers and Innovators at the University of St Andrews in the Early Modern Period’ at the joint BSHM-CSHPM conference ‘People, Places, Practices’, University of St Andrews, July 2021.
‘Historia litteraria and Practices of Cataloguing in the Early Modern Republic of Letters’, part of the panel ‘Sorting out Scientiae’ at the Scientiae 2021 conference ‘Early Modern Knowledge, 1400-1800’, University of Amsterdam, June 2021.
‘Sharing Marks in Early Modern Books’, part of the panel ‘The Materials of Communication’ at the annual Harvard-Yale-Brown Conference in Book History ‘Materiality and Book History (in the age of Zoom)’, Harvard University, May 2021.
‘The Communion of the Book: Auctions and their Communities’, invited paper at the research seminar of Daniela Hacke and Alexander Schunka, Free University of Berlin, November 2020.
‘Remembering the Books: Libraries and their Legacy in Early Modern Germany’, part of the panel ‘Family, Nobility and Civility’ at the conference ‘Memory and Identity in the Learned World: Community Formation in the Early Modern World of Science and Learning’, Utrecht University, November 2019.
‘The Contradictions of Collecting: Jean Henri Samuel Formey (1711-1797) and his many Libraries’, invited talk as part of the seminar ‘The Library: A Fragile History’, taught by Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen, University of St Andrews, November 2019.
‘Collecting and Community in Early Modern Germany: A Very Short Introduction’, talk at Research Residential, Scottish Graduate School of Arts & Humanities, University of Glasgow, August 2019.
‘L’illustre nom que vous portez: Memory and Civility in the Beausobre Family’, part of the panel ‘Politeness and Civility’ at the conference ‘ISECS International Congress on the Enlightenment’, University of Edinburgh, July 2019.
‘The Government at Auction: Urban Policy and the Market for Books in Lübeck, 1675–1780’, part of the panel ‘Auctions, catalogues and book collecting’ at the conference ‘Crisis or Enlightenment? Developments in the Book Trade, 1650-1750’, University of St Andrews, June 2019.
‘Beyond the Books: Catalogues as Memory in Eighteenth-Century Germany’, part of the panel ‘The afterlives of books and catalogues’ at the conference ‘Private Libraries and Private Library Inventories, 1665–1830’, Radboud University Nijmegen, January 2019.
‘Digitale Analyse von Bücherkatalogen: Der Bücherradkatalog von Herzog August’, part of the panel ‘Historische Bibliothekskataloge’ at the conference ‘13. Blaubeurener Symposium Handschriften und Alte Drucke’ in Fulda, October 2018.
‘Catalogues in Catalogues: Imitation and Competition in Early Modern Book Collecting’, part of the USTC Workshop on ‘Book Trade Catalogues in Early Modern Europe’, University of St Andrews, June 2018.
‘Catalogues, Memory and Identity: Duke August the Younger (1579–1666) and his Library’, at the conference ‘North East Scotland Postgraduate History Conference’, University of Aberdeen, March 2018.
‘Bücher in finsteren Zeiten. Herzog August der Jüngere (1579–1666) und die Inszenierung seiner Bibliothek’, Forschungskolloquium, Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel, January 2018.
