Education & Professional History
Rutgers University-New Brunswick, PhD
At Carleton since 2000.
Highlights & Recent Activity
Robert C. Richie Distinguished Fellow in Early American History, Huntington Library, 2024-2025
Vice-President, Teaching Division, American Historical Association, 2025-2028
President, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, 2022-2023; Executive Council, 2021-2024
The Boston Massacre (Harper Collins, hc 2020; paper 2023)
“Empire and Protest,” in The Cambridge History of the American Revolution (Cambridge University Press, 2025).
Lead author for NEH/National History Day Curriculum Guide, “Building a More Perfect Union,” 2021.
Organizations & Scholarly Affiliations
American Historical Association, Society for the History of the Early American Republic, Organization of American Historians, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Massachusetts Historical Society, The Colonial Society
Current Courses
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Winter 2026
HIST 212: The American Revolution at 250
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HIST 216: History Beyond the Walls
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Spring 2026
HIST 213: Politics and Protest in the New Nation
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HIST 314: Crime and Punishment: Early American Legal History
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Winter 2027
HIST 216: History Beyond the Walls
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HIST 298: What is History?
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Spring 2027
HIST 124: Early American Debates
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HIST 211: Revolts and Resistance in Early America
