No Luddite, I try to incorporate technology into my research and teaching to enhance my connection to students and audiences. This website serves as an efficient way for you to learn more about my work, be it scholarship, teaching, or service to the community.

You'll find links to my courses (including syllabi, primary sources and assignments), a short biography, my curriculum vitae, articles and professional contributions, as well as information about my professional activities.

I have also included a set of links to colleagues and their activities, and some foundations/archives/organizations who have been generous enough to support my research endeavors throughout the last few years.

Research and Teaching Interests, in Brief:

As a historian of early America and the Atlantic World, my research and teaching interests are vast. However, my focus is on race and identity formation from the mid-eighteenth through to the mid-nineteenth centuries. My dissertation examines how British and American officials used forced migration -- or, removal -- to control problematic social, cultural and racial groups. I also study the formation of Diasporas that resulted from these removals, chronicling how targeted groups reconstructed their identities, societies, and cultures in the face of adversity. By chronicling the experiences of removed groups -- such as the Acadians, Maroons, and Africans -- my work criss-crosses the currents of the Atlantic ocean, demonstrating how the events in one region could have significant consequences for another region of the littoral.

My teaching also attempts to step outside the traditional nationally oriented historical narratives by encouraging students to seek an alternative explanation of American history, set against the backdrop of the larger Atlantic World. Together, through the examination of primary sources, scholarly essays and monographs, web-based materials, and class discussions, we explore and interpret the events of the past. My goal as a teacher, mentor, and intellectual travel guide is for each student to arrive at their own interpretation of the past -- one that is grounded on rigorous scholarly inquiry.

**You can find links to my publications on the left hand side of this website.