I am a historian of the early United Staets with particular interests in political culture. My book The American Liberty Pole: Popular Politics and the Struggle for Democracy in the Early Republic was published with the University of Virginia Press in 2023. I am currently working on my second book, Barnum: The First Celebrity Politician, which explores the political career of P.T. Barnum. I am also the Special Series Editor for the "Road to 250" Series for Made by History at TIME Magazine.
In addition, my work has been published in The Journal of the Early Republic, The Washington Post, TIME Magazine, and The Toronto Star.
Sample Publications
2025 “William Bonham’s Republic: Defining Politics in the Whiskey Rebellion,” Journal of the Early Republic.
2025 “Early America on Stage” in Scripting the Past in the Present: Early America and Contemporary Culture, eds. Rebecca Harrison and Patrick Erben. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
2023 The American Liberty Pole: Popular Politics and the Struggle for Democracy in the Early Republic. Charlottesville: The University of Virginia Press.
2023 “‘The Spitting Lyon’: Matthew Lyon and the Federalists’ Fears,” in Republic of Scoundrels, eds. David Head and Tim Hemmis. New York City: Pegasus Books.
2022 “Who Tells Which Story? Teaching Hamilton, History, and Memory,” in The Hamilton Phenomenon, ed. Chloe Northop. Wilmington: Vernon Press.
2021 “Liberty Poles and the Contested Right of Protest in America’s Founding Era,” in Protest in the Long Eighteenth Century, eds. Yvonne Fuentes and Mark Malin. New York: Routledge.
2018 “Liberty Poles and the Fight for Popular Politics in the Early Republic.” Journal of the Early Republic.
PhD, U.S. History, University of Virginia (2019)
MA, History, University of Western Ontario (2013)
(Hon.) BA, History, English Minor, University of Western Ontario (2012)