His book, _Modern Antiques: The Material Past in England, 1660-1780_ (Bucknell, 2012), presents antiquarian scholarship as a source of modern notions of historical time, which were spread and contested by the period’s literature and consumer culture. Research for the book was completed with support from the Paul Mellon Centre for British Art and Architecture and the Lewis Walpole Library at Yale University. He is currently working on a project about food, taste, and historical reenactment.