Emma L. Verstraete

Forthcoming

Verstraete, Emma L. Evocative Elixirs: How 19^th Century Consumer Medicine Shaped Modern American Healthcare. University of Alabama Press. In revision post peer review, Expected Late Winter 2027.

Publications

Roberts, Siona, Emma L. Verstraete, Natasha Adams, Sharon Kuo, Michael Knudson, Alexandra Zachwieja. 2026. “A synthetic flow network decision-making tool to identify potential downstream contamination risk in permafrost-bound Alaskan hazard sites.” GIScience & Remote Sensing. https://doi.org/10.1080/15481603.2026.2713329.

Verstraete, Emma L., S. Kuo, N. Adams, and A. J. Zachwieja. 2025. “Embodying the Impact of Climate Change for Decision Makers Using Augmented Reality (AR): A Case Study of Climate-Threatened Cultural Heritage Sites in Western Alaska.” Environmental Science & Policy (171): 104178. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104178.

Verstraete, Emma L. and Alexandra Zachwieja. 2025. “Vernacular Infrastructure: a hidden cost in the economics of climate change and permafrost thaw in Alaska.” Sustainable Futures 9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sftr.2025.100762.

Verstraete, Emma L. 2025. “Contextualising Extractive Landscapes for Climate Forecasting.” Environment and History 31 (1): 3–9. https://doi.org/10.3828/whpeh.63861480327335.

Verstraete, Emma L. 2024. “Ancient Egyptian Curses and Bog Bodies: The Role of Pseudoarchaeology in Tumblr’s Subculture.” Epoiesen: A Journal for Creative Engagement in History and Archaeology, January. https://doi.org/10.22215/epoiesen/2024.2.

Verstraete, Emma. 2024. “Certificate Required: Drugstores and the Regulation of ‘Female Drugs’ in Late Nineteenth‐Century Illinois.” History of Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals 65 (2): 220–41. https://doi.org/10.3368/hopp.65.2.220.

Holland-Lulewicz, Jacob, and Emma L. Verstraete. 2023. “From Cahokia to Capital: Historical Palimpsests and the Euro-American Afterlives of an Indigenous Place.” International Journal of Historical Archaeology 27 (4): 1185–1209. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10761-023-00706-6.

Verstraete, Emma. 2022. “Soothing the Self: Medicine Advertisement and the Cult of Domesticity in Nineteenth-Century Springfield, Illinois.” International Journal of Historical Archaeology, January. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10761-021-00644-1.

Verstraete, Emma L. 2022. “‘For Sale by All Druggists’: Patent Medicine and National Market Access in Springfield, Illinois.” Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology 47 (1).

Verstraete, Emma L. 2016. “Little Flat Creek Valley: What Happens When Archaeology Contradicts Local Lore?” Missouri Archaeological Society Quarterly 32 (2): 21–24.