Writing

Peer Reviewed Articles:

2025. “The Plant Delighteth: Plant Personhood in the Study of Western Esotericism.” Pomegranate, 25(1–2), 167-185. https://doi.org/10.1558/pome.25425

2025. “ The Relics of Science: Nonhuman Bodies in Natural History and Zoological Museums.” Museum Anthropology e70014. https://doi.org/10.1111/muan.70014.

Forthcoming 2026. “Pray Into That Tree: An Interview with Chief Mak’wala Rande Cook.” In Thinking with Plants & Fungi, Center for the Study of World Religions. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Books:

Petersen, Rachael, Natalia Schwien Scott, and Russell Powell, eds. Forthcoming 2026. Thinking with Plants & Fungi at the Center for the Study of World Religions. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Interviews + Essays: 

“Rooting in Relationality: Considering Plant Consciousness at the Center for the Study of World Religions.” Harvard Divinity Bulletin, Autumn/Winter 2023.https://bulletin.hds.harvard.edu/rooting-in-relationality/

"Delightfully Paradoxical: Finding Science at the Divinity School - A Conversation with Award-Winning Science Journalist Aaron Scott.” Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School, June 3, 2025. https://cswr.hds.harvard.edu/news/2025/06/delightfully-paradoxical-finding-science-divinity-school

“Lifting the Green Veil with Vanessa Chakour: A Practitioner’s Perspective.” Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School, July 11, 2025.https://cswr.hds.harvard.edu/news/2025/07/11/lifting-green-veil-vanessa-chakour-practitioners-perspective

“The Service Tree: Exploring Boundaries and Release through Yew.” Sacred Warrior Blog. https://www.sacredwarrior.co/blog-archive/the-service-tree-exploring-boundaries-and-release-through-yew

Features:

Pintair, Olivia Q. 2025. “Asking Fear to Sleep: A Conversation with Ellayo.” Lullaby Machine, May 4, 2025.https://lullabymachine.com/essays/essay6

Blackwell, Jeffrey. 2025. “Thinking With Plants and Fungi: Celebrating the Voices of the More-Than-Human World.” Harvard Gazette, June 4, 2025. Accessed September 2, 2025. https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/newsplus/thinking-with-plants-and-fungi-celebrating-the-voices-of-the-more-than-human-world/

Center for the Study of World Religions (CSWR). 2023. “Plant Consciousness Reading Group: A Conversation with Co-founders Rachael Petersen and Natalia Schwien.” Center for the Study of World Religions, July 24, 2023. https://cswr.hds.harvard.edu/news/2023/07/24/plant-consciousness-reading-group-conversation-co-founders-rachael-petersen-and

Moderator for “Root Song Panel Discussion: Robin Wall Kimmerer and Suzanne Simard”Forthcoming for Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, May 30, 2026, Philadelphia, PA.

Museum Exhibition Texts:

Exhibition Label Author, Celtic Art Throughout the Ages, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, March 6-August 2, 2026.