Book Review
The Amateur Hour: A History of College Teaching in America by Jonathan Zimmerman [Book Review] in Teaching History: A Journal of Methods (Spring 2021), 46 (1), pgs. 34-35
"A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet [Book Review]," Teaching History: A Journal of Methods, 45, no. 1 (2020), 71-73
"Nature and the Environment in Nineteenth-Century Ireland [Review]," Environmental History 25, no. 4 (October 2020), 802-804
"Ellen Browning Scripps: New Money and American Philanthropy [Book Review]," Southern California Quarterly (2020), 102 (3), pgs. 319-321, https://doi.org/10.1525/scq.2020.102.3.319.
Pluymers, K. A Biography of a Map in Motion: Augustine Herrman’s Chesapeake. By Christian J. Koot. (New York: New York University Press, 2018. Pp. xiv, 283. $40, ISBN 978-1-4798-3729-8) [Review]. Randal Hall (EDs). Journal of Southern History (2019)
Book, Authored
No Wood, No Kingdom: Political Ecology in the English Atlantic (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
Book, Chapter
Pluymers, K. ‘Pirates’ and the Problems of Plantation in Seventeenth-Century Ireland. Peter Mancall and Carole Shammas (EDs). Governing the Sea in the Early Modern Era: Essays in Honor of Robert C. Ritchie (2015): 79-108.
Journal Article
“Composting in the herbarium” (co-authored with Melissa Oresky), Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture (Autumn 2020) issue 52, pgs. 156-172.
Pluymers, K. Atlantic Iron: Wood Scarcity and the Political Ecology of Early English Expansion. William and Mary Quarterly 73.3 (2016): 389-426.
Pluymers, K. Taming the Wilderness in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Ireland and Virginia. Environmental History 16.4 (2011): 610 - 632.
Water and Power in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia. History Department Brown Bag Series. University of Illinois at Chicago. (2021)
No Wood, No Kingdom Book Talk, Early American Seminar Series, USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute, 11 September 2021
“Mud, Steam, and London’s Eighteenth-Century Water Companies,” University of Chicago British History Seminar, 19 July 2021
“Scarcity and Early Modern English Expansion,” Early Modern Europe Seminar, Princeton University, 13 October 2021
Atlantic Iron: Wood Scarcity and the Political Ecology of English Expansion. Environmental Studies Workshop. University of Chicago. (2019)
Bringing the Environment into the History Classroom. History-Social Sciences Teacher Symposium. (2019)
The Great Irish Famine, an Unnatural Disaster?. Senior Professionals Meetings with the Professors. ISU Senior Professionals. (2019)
“Indicted weirs and absolutist political ecology in early modern Ireland,” Northeast Conference on British Studies, 4-5 October 2019
“Panel Discussion: A Confluence of Botanical Interests,” Milner Library, ISU, 1 October 2019
“Wood Conservation, Atlantic Trade, and the Landscapes of Early English Barbados,” North American Conference for British Studies, 14-17 November 2019
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Short-Term Fellowship. Library Company of Philadelphia. Private. (2021)
New Faculty Initiative Grant. Illinois State University. Illinois State University. (2019)
International Seminar Series: Local and Global Environments in Conversation. International Studies Program. Illinois State University.