Publications

Monographs

Open Plan: A Design History of the American Office, (Bloomsbury 2021)

Edited Collections

Design History Beyond The Canon, Edited by Jennifer Kaufmann-Buhler, Victoria Rose Pass, and Christopher S. Wilson (Bloomsbury, 2019).

Journal Articles

“Designing for Maintenance: Plant Care Technology in the Office.” Technology and Culture 63, no. 4 (2022): 1033-1056.

“Working in the Electronic Garden: The Visual Rhetoric of Herman Miller’s Action Office.” Technology and Culture 63, no. 4 (2022): 927-934.

“Computing the Cubicle: Design for the High-Tech Office, 1970-1990” IEEE Annals of the History of Computing (July/September 2021).

“If the Chair Fits: Sexism in American Office Furniture Design,” Journal of Design History 32, no 4 (2019).

“Progressive Partitions: The Promises and Problems of the American Open Plan Office,” Design and Culture 8, no 2 (2016).

Book Chapters

“Diversionary Tactics at Work: Making Meaning Through Misuse” in Design History Beyond the Canon.

“The Politics and Logistics of Ergonomics in American Offices, 1970-2000,” Making Disability Modern: Design Histories, edited by Elizabeth Guffey and Bess Williamson, London: Bloomsbury Press 2020.

Reviews

“No Compromise: The Work of Florence Knoll,” Journal of Design History, 35, no 2, ( 2022): 201–202

“Serious Play: Design in Midcentury America,” exhibition review, Design and Culture 12, no 1 (2020): 113-117.

“Housekeeping By Design,” book review, Design and Culture 10, no 1 (2018): 118-120.

“Design Objects and the Museum,” book review, Design and Culture 9, no 2 (2017): 255-257.