Other Writing
Book Reviews
The Trouble of Color: An American Family Memoir, Washington Independent Review of Books, May 29, 2025
Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner, Washington Independent Review of Books, June 20, 2024
Q&A with Janice P. Nimura, author of Daughters of the Samurai, Washington Independent Review of Books, May 27, 2016
Without You There Is No Us: My Times With the Sons of North Korea’s Elite, Washington Independent Review of Books, January 1, 2015
A Covert Affair: Julia Child and Paul Child in the OSS, Washington Independent Review of Books, May 10, 2011
Articles & Essays
“The American Woman Who Reported on Japan’s Entry Into World War I,” Doughboy Foundation website, August 8, 2023
“Design College’s New Provost Hopes to Contribute to Another Detroit Renaissance” Chronicle of Higher Education, January 6, 2014
“On the Porch,” Washingtonian, August 1, 2009
“Giant Footprint” Smithsonian.com, January 28, 2008
“Monumental Shift” Smithsonian.com, July 31, 2007
“Remnants of the Past: High-Tech Analyses of Ancient Textiles Yield Clues to Cultures,” Science News, December 11, 2004
“Assault on Autism,” Science News, November 9, 2004
“New Signs of Hope in the Struggle for Human Rights: Indonesia,” Ford Foundation Report, Fall 1998
“Maternal Death Rate Tough to Reduce,” Indonesian Observer, April 12, 1998
“Helping Students Learn Science the Way Science Works,” Science, September 30, 1994
“Medicine and the Humanities,” Humanities Jan.–Feb. 1992
“The Animal Rights Movement Has Closed Down and Stalled Research,” NIDA Notes, Spring/Summer 1989
“Community Colleges Exhibit New Spirit of Fund-Raising Aggressiveness,” Trustee Quarterly, Winter 1989
“Nixon’s Ghosts Haunt the Archives,” Common Cause, July/August 1986
“Putting Geography Back on the Map,” The Washington Post, April 20, 1986
“Crossroads, South Africa: In a Rural Settlement, Medical Students Are Learning Both Medicine and the Realities of Politics,” The New Physician, July 8, 1984
National Geographic News
“In Africa, Decoding the Language of Elephants,” National Geographic News, February 21, 2003
“Maya Hieroglyphics Recount ‘Giant War,’ ” National Geographic News, October 19, 2002
“Crossbow Rivalry of Two Italian Towns Dates to Middle Ages,” National Geographic News, September 6, 2002
“Skull Fossil Opens Window onto Early Human Origins,” National Geographic News, July 11, 2002
“City Occupied by Inca Discovered on Andean Peak in Peru,” March 18, 2002
” ‘SuperCroc’ Fossil Found in Sahara,” National Geographic News, October 25, 2001
“Skeleton of New Dinosaur ‘Titan’ Found in Madagascar,” National Geographic News, August 1, 2001
“Tiny Fossil From Early Jurassic Fills New Niche in Mammal Evolution,” National Geographic News, May 24, 1001
Other Sample Writing
National Geographic Traveler: Washington, D.C. (three editions)
The Jakarta Explorer, 1999 (contributor and editorial coordinator)
Map legends, National Geographic Magazine fold-out maps of New York City (September 1990) and the Holy Land (December 1989)
Annual reports, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 1994 and 1995
Annual report, Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Bogor, Indonesia, 1998
Annual report, World Fish Center, Penang, Malaysia, 2005/06
CIFOR newsletter, Nos. 19–27, Bogor, Indonesia, June 1998 to March/April 2001
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