Harvard
“Houghton Library Opens Exhibition on Drag in America,” The Crimson, September 8, 2023
“Immigration, under the stage lights,” Harvard Gazette, October 29, 2018
“Matthew Wittmann,” Harvard Magazine, November 2016
General
“Circus Elephants of New York, Vanishing,” New York Times, March 4, 2016
“Elephants to Retire From Ringling Brothers Stage,” New York Times, March 5, 2015
ABC Radio interview w/ Margaret Throsby, September 17, 2014
“Free the Elephants?” New York Daily News, February 16, 2014
“Jumbo’s Homecoming,” New York Times, March 21, 2013
“Huge crowd turned out for visiting American bellringers,” Cook Island News, January 6, 2007
Numismatics
“The ‘Academy Awards’ of Coin Collecting,” Fortune Magazine, January 16, 2016
“Woman to Share $10 Bill,” All Things Considered, NPR, June 18, 2015
“Making Sense of the Penny,” CBS This Morning, April 12, 2015
“A Woman’s Place is on the $20,” New York Times, March 21, 2015
“A Campaign to Put a Woman on the Twenty-Dollar Bill,” New Yorker, March 4, 2015
Press for Circus and the City: New York, 1793-2010
“Der Zirkus ist ein Einwanderer,” Die Welt, January 17, 2013
Art Uncovered podcast @ BreakThru Radio
“Culture of Clowning,” Huffpost Arts & Culture
The Approval Matrix, New York magazine, Week of December 31, 2012
“Circus and the City,” Antiques and the Arts Weekly, December 28, 2012
“Curator’s Choice,” NYC-Arts Program, PBS-Thirteen
Sebastian Smee, “Step Right Up: Exhibition on New York Circus History Proves to be Lovely, Fascinating Joyride,” Boston Globe, November 11, 2012
“When Jumbo Was Toast of the Town,” New York Times, September 21, 2012
“The Circus and the City Grow Up Together,” Spectacle Magazine, November 2012
“The circus in all its glory and seaminess,” Philadelphia Inquirer, November 14, 2012
“The Metro Beat” WFDU 89.1
NYC-ARTS, WNET-PBS (video link)
“The Greatest Show on Earth,” examiner.com, October 15, 2012
“Circus and the City: New York, 1793-2010,” Architect: The Magazine of the American Institute of Architects
“Circus Time,” The New Yorker
“How the Circus Transformed America,” BeyondChron
“Circus Music in America,” PBS Newshour
“The American Circus,” BBC History Magazine
“P.T. Barnum’s Bearded Ladies,” Bloomberg News
“‘Circus and the City’ examines the big top in the Big Apple,” TimeOut
“Circus and the City,” cityArts
“Snapshot: Circus and the City,” Financial Times
“The History of the American Circus,” The Huffington Post
“Le Top 5 Incontournable!” New-York Monmacadam
Family Day with the Bindlestiff Cirkus in TimeOut