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“Demography, Destiny, Democracy,” in The Cambridge History of Democracy, eds. Christopher Meckstroth and Samuel Moyn (New York: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).

“Beliefs and Cultures: Old Age in the Twentieth Century,” in A Cultural History of Old Age, vol. 6, eds. Nicole Kramer and Benoît Majerus (London: Bloomsbury, forthcoming).

“Memory,” in Keywords for Public Health Humanities, eds. Sari Altschuler, Jonathan Metzl, and Priscilla Wald (New York: New York University Press, 2023).

“Natural Law and Human Rights Language in the Early Twentieth Century,” in The Cambridge Handbook on Natural Law and Human Rights, ed. Tom Angier, Iain Benson, and Mark Retter (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022).

“The Fascist Origins of German Ecumenism,” in Germany and the Confessional Divide, 1871-1989, eds. Mark Ruff and Thomas Großbölting (New York: Berghahn, 2021), 125-454.

“Max Scheler, Temporality, and the Fate of Modernity in Weimar Germany,” in Gefährdete Moderne. Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf die katholische Reformtheologie der Zwischenkriegszeit, ed. Magnus Lerch and Christian Stoll (Freiburg: Herder, 2021), 101-16.

“Explaining the Catholic Turn to Rights in the 1930s,” in Christianity and Human Rights Reconsidered, eds. Sarah Shortall and Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020), 63-80.

“’On the Border of Old Age’: An Entangled History of Eldercare in East Germany,” Central European History 53 (2020), 353-71.

“The God That Won: Eugen Kogon Between Catholicism and Cold War Liberalism,” Journal of Contemporary History 55 (2020), 339-63.

“The Logic of Sanctuary: Towards a New Metaphor for the Study of Global Religion,” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 88 (2020): 15-34

“Old Volk: Aging in 1950s Germany, East and West,” Journal of Modern History 90 (2018), 792-833.

“Can a Rich Man Enter the Kingdom of God? The Catholic Debate over Private Property During the Great Depression,” in So What’s New about Scholasticism? How Neo-Thomism Helped Shape the Twentieth Century, ed. Rajesh Heynickx and Stéphane Symons (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2018).

“Nuclear Families in a Nuclear Age: Theorizing the Family in the Federal Republic of Germany,” Contemporary European History 26 (2017), 85-109.

“Catholicism and the Economy of Miracles in West Germany, 1920-60,” New German Critique 42 (2015), 9-40.

“Nihilism and the Cold War: The Catholic Reception of Nihilism Between Nietzsche and Adenauer,” Rethinking History 17, 1 (2014), 95-110.

“A Mechanical Style in Our Joys: Time, Space, and Discipline in British Sports,” Crossings: A Counter-Disciplinary Journal 8 (Fall 2012), 77-115.

“The Catholic Origins of Totalitarianism Theory in Interwar Europe,” Modern Intellectual History 9, 3 (November 2011), 261-90.

“The Poetics of Sainthood in Interwar Catholic Literature: A Reading of Sous le soleil de Satan and The Power and the Glory, Revue belge de philologie et d’histoire 88 (2010), 1229-1253.