- Books
- _Mechanizing Timekeeping: Temporal Standards and the Control of Time_ (University of Chicago Press, 2018).
- _The Invention of Precision: The Long Adjustment of Timekeeping in Europe_ (University of Chicago Press, 2012).
- _Waiting: The Social Life of Delays_ (University of Chicago Press, 2005).
- Articles
- "Making Time: The Rise of Timekeeping in Europe, 1300-1800" in _The Cambridge World History of Food_, edited by Kenneth F. Kiple and Kriemhild Coneè Ornelas (Cambridge University Press, 2000), volume 1, pp. 233-258.
- "The Invention of Daylight Saving Time" in _The Social History of Time_, edited by John H. Alexander and Paul J. Sherman (Haworth Press, 1996), pp. 219-239.
- "Waiting for the End: The Social History of Death and Time in America, 1830-1910" in _Mortality: Historical and Cultural Perspectives_, edited by John R. Gillis (Cambridge University Press, 1993), pp. 191-217.
- Chapters in Books
- "Precision Timekeeping and Western Society" in _A History of Western Timekeeping_, edited by Thomas F. Glick (Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. 211-233.
- "Time and the Social Construction of Space" in _Geography and Time: Space and Time in Geographic Theory_, edited by Anthony D. King (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010), pp. 19-39.
- "The Mechanization of Time: Precision Timekeeping and its Social Consequences" in _The Social Impact of Time: Historical and International Perspectives_, edited by Thomas S. Popkewitz and Barry Franklin (Brill Academic Publishers, 2010), pp. 123-146.
- Encyclopedia Articles
- "Time" in _The Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology_, edited by Alan Barnard and Jonathan Spencer (Routledge, 2010), pp. 618-628.
- "Precision" in _The Encyclopedia of the Social & Cultural Foundations of Education_, edited by Barry Franklin (Sage Publications, 2008), pp. 632-637.
- "Death and Dying in America" in _The Encyclopedia of American Social History_, edited by Peter S. Onuf (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1993), pp. 231-238.
- Other Publications
- "Time and the Internet: A Social History" (Working paper, New York University, 2001).
- "The Social History of Timekeeping" (Working paper, New York University, 1999).