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I have been a member of the History Department faculty at 91���� since 1997, and I began a term as Department Chair in 2025. My current major book project is about loyalists—those who opposed the rebellion that created the United States. My approach there is to focus on five individuals from very different corners of colonial society who each had good reasons to reject the patriots, especially as victims of rebel violence.

I teach all levels of students at 91����. My entry-level classes are the first half of the US Survey to 1877 (HTY 103), an Introduction to Public History (HTY 205), and The Creation of the Atlantic World, 1450-1888 (HTY 240). My advanced undergraduate and graduate courses focus on early America (roughly to the 1830s) with an emphasis on social and cultural history.

I am currently a member of the Nominating Committee of the , board member of the  in Orland, Maine, and active in the  program for grade 6-12 students in Maine. I am a past Director of the 91���� Humanities Center (2014-2016), now the McGillicuddy Humanities Center, past board member of the  (2010-2017), and past chair, vice-chair, or member of the City of Bangor’s .

Select Awards

• Research Fellow, International Center for Jefferson Studies, Charlottesville, Virginia (2023)
• Research Fellow, American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia (2022)
• Maine Heritage Lecturer, awarded by College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, 91���� (2020)
• Neal W. Allen, Jr., History Award from the Maine Historical Society (2020)
• Outstanding Faculty Member, Service and Outreach, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, 91���� (2020)
• Fulbright Scholar Award, University of Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom-United States Fulbright Commission (2012)