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  • Interview for History Hit’s “After Dark” Podcast, recorded December 13, 2024

  • Interview for Wired’s “Tech Support” series, released October 31, 2024

  • Interview on the superstitions surrounding black cats for The Wall Street Journal, published October 31, 2024,

  • Interview, “History of the Devil and Resurfaced Satanic Panic” on the Michael Beverly Podcast, recorded July 10, 2024

  • Interview on The Witch (2015) for Historians at the Movies podcast, May 24, 2023

  • Interview, “Episode 13: They Live Among Us,” The Newcastle Witches Podcast, May 4, 2023

  • Video Lecture, “Why are we so fascinated by the Devil?”, One Garden, virtual, May 12, 2022

  • Interviews on the Scottish Government’s apology for the witch-hunts with The New York Times and The Guardian, March 2022

  • Virtual Lecture, “What Conditions Create Witch Hunts?”, One Garden, virtual, February 7, 2022

  • Interview for “Satanic Encounters,” Documentary, History Channel, aired November 2021

  • Interview, “Civs 101: Scotland,” History Respawned, June 2021

  • Interview, “The Devil and the Witch Trials in Scotland,” Talking Tudors Podcast, April 2021

  • Interview, “Covenanters under Cromwellian Occupation,” Pax Britannica Podcast, broadcast March 2021

  • Interview on Mapping the Scottish Reformation for the Ecclesiastical History Society Podcast, July 2020

  • Interview, “Hunting Satan in Scotland and the Atlantic World,” George Washington Library podcast, July 2020

  • Editorial, “Our strategies for handling a pandemic haven’t changed much in centuries,” The Washington Post, April 29, 2020

  • Interview on “Women and Sex in early modern Scotland,” BBC Radio Scotland, May 2020

  • Interview on “The Scottish Witch-hunts,” BBC Radio Scotland, October 2019

  • Interview for “Witches of Salem,” Documentary, Travel Channel, originally aired October 2019

  • Editorial, “Why universities should be on the front lines of the monument wars," with Sarah Horowitz and Molly Michelmore, The Washington Post, September 6, 2018

  • Editorial, “No, there is no witch hunt against powerful men,” The Washington Post, October 18, 2017. Published online at

  • Editorial, “Why We Blame the Victim, and Why We Have to Stop: a Historian’s Perspective,” The University of Edinburgh’s Global Justice Academy Blog. December 8, 2014

  • Interview, “History Respawned: Diablo III,” History Respawned, October 13, 2014

  • Editorial, “Scotland Votes No, but Dreams Persist,” Richmond Times Dispatch. September 21, 2014