Education:

MA, History, Boston College, 2010
BA, History, Ohio Northern University, summa cum laude, 2008

Research Interests:

Primarily, I am a historian of the Early Modern Atlantic, especially the British North American colonies, and I focus on the African Diaspora and slavery in the southern colonies. The transnational and trans-hemispheric history of the Americas is also an interest of mine, so more specifically I study the intersection of slavery, race, and nation with labor and agriculture in the Western Hemisphere from 1492-1888. While primarily a historian of the Early Modern Atlantic World, I also have a scholarly interest in the history of Cuba, stemming from my time living there in the fall of 2006.

Publications:

• Review of Paths to Freedom: Manumission in the Atlantic World, published in Southern Historian, April 2010.
• “The Demerara Slave Rebellion of 1823,” “Suriname,” and “Tobacco”
  Published in the Encyclopedia of Slavery in the Americas, edited by Edward Baptist (Forthcoming)

Conference Presentations:

• "The Lingering Problem of Tio Sam: Castroist Perspectives on U.S.-Cuban Relations" presented at the Annual Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations at University of Wisconsin, Madison 26 June 2010.
• “The First Rafter Crisis: San Domingue Refugees, Cuba, and Immigration Policy in the Early Republic” presented at the 2009 Annual Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations at George Mason University 26 June 2009.
• “Subjugation, Trade, and Expansion: The Indian Origins of Bacon’s Rebellion” presented at the 2008 Annual Regional Phi Alpha Theta Conference at Kent State University 5 April 2008.
• “An Opportune Truth: Anti-Americanism in Castroist Historiography”
  presented at the 23rd Annual Ohio Valley History Conference at Western Kentucky University, 18 October 2007.