Physical, Quantitative and Digital History

Separate from my work at CMU, I have an interest in physical, quantitative and digital history.

Selected publications

• (2025) Thermodynamic Approach to Modeling Complexity of Regional Hewett-Hubbert Resource Bubbles and Large Dynasties, Journal of Big History, pp. 124 – 143.
• (2023) A Thermodynamic Interpretation of the Progression of Historical Processes, Journal of World Systems
• (2018) Navigating the Currents of History, World History Connected

Related Links and Work

• Course.Cafe digital history courses site
. There is an open resource textbook for digital history, supporting technology topics, and physical history topics.
• HistoryQuant (a blog)
• h1st0ry.org digital history site
• Course.Cafe contains a library of online physical and digital history textbooks.
• Big Sustainability is an application of physical history, also inspired by the field of Big History, that had been published on the Monash University Alexandria Repository.