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 鈥淲illiam Bonham鈥檚 Republic: Defining Politics in the Whiskey Rebellion,鈥� Journal of the Early Republic.
2025 鈥淓arly America on Stage鈥� 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 鈥溾�楾he Spitting Lyon鈥�: Matthew Lyon and the Federalists鈥� Fears,鈥� in Republic of Scoundrels, eds. David Head and Tim Hemmis. New York City: Pegasus Books.
2022 鈥淲ho Tells Which Story? Teaching Hamilton, History, and Memory,鈥� in The Hamilton Phenomenon, ed. Chloe Northop. Wilmington: Vernon Press.
2021 鈥淟iberty Poles and the Contested Right of Protest in America鈥檚 Founding Era,鈥� in Protest in the Long Eighteenth Century, eds. Yvonne Fuentes and Mark Malin. New York: Routledge.
2018 鈥淟iberty Poles and the Fight for Popular Politics in the Early Republic.鈥� 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)