Degree:
Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh (2006)
M.A. History, University of Pittsburgh (1999)
B.A. Westminster College, New Wilmington, PA (1993) Specialization:Early American and Atlantic World Research Interests:the Atlantic history of the English Revolution republicanism slavery in the early modern and twenty-first century global economies the origins of abolitionism in the British Empire American exceptionalism
Book: 'Fire Under the Ashes': An Atlantic History of the English Revolution (forthcoming, University of Chicago Press)
Building the Atlantic Empires: Slavery, the State, and the Rise of Global Capitalism, 1500-1945 (co-edited with Evelyn Jennings (forthcoming, Brill Publishers, Global Social History Series)
Articles: "Out of the Land of Bondage': The English Revolution and the Atlantic Origins of Abolition," The American Historical Review (forthcoming, vol. 115, no. 3, June 2010)
Kidnapped: Child Trafficking in the Global Economies of the Seventeenth and Twenty-first Centuries," in J. Garbarino and G. Sigman, eds., The Child's Right to a Healthy Environment (New York: Springer Publishing, 2010).
"El distrito de Londinense de la calle Coleman y el mundo atlantico del republicanismo radical, 1624-1661," Itinerarios, del Centro de Estudios Espacio Memoriae Identidad, Universidad Naciona de Rosario, Argentina, 2007
"The Western Design and Radical Republicanism," International Seminar on the History of the Atlanta World, Working Papers: Soundings (Cambridge, MA, 2005)
"Radical Republicanism, Unfree Labor, and Imperialism in the Atlantic World, 1630-1661," Labor: Studies in Working-Class Histories of the Americas 1 Winter (2004), 47068.
- "'Hell Broke Loose:' Coleman Street Ward and the Atlantic World of Radical Republicanism,” International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World, Working Papers: Atlantic Networks, 1500-1825 (Cambridge, MA, 2003)
Recent Book Reviews:- Susan Dwyer Amussen, Caribbean Exchanges: Slavery and the Transformation of English Society, 1640-1700 (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2007) [Forthcoming in Itinerario: International Journal of the History of Global Expansion and Interaction]
- Glenn Burgess and Matthew Festenstein, eds., English Radicalism, 1550-1850 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007). [Forthcoming in Left History]
- David Brion Davis, Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006) in Itinerario: International Journal of the History of Global Expansion and Interaction 31.3 (2007).
- Jeremy Black, The Hanoverians: The History of a Dynasty (London: Hambledon and London, Ltd., 2004) in The History Teacher 39 February (2006).
- Jessica Warner, The Incendiary: The Misadventures of John the Painter, First Modern Terrorist (Toronto: McClellan and Stewart, 2005) in The International Journal of Maritime History XVII June (2005), 307-309.
- Carla Gardina Pestana, The English Atlantic in An Age of Revolution, 1640-1661 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004) in The Journal of Social History 39 (4) 2006, 1189-1191.
- Joseph C. Morton, The American Revolution (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2003) in The History Teacher 38 November (2004), 129-130.
- Rebecca J. Tannenbaum, The Healer's Calling: Women and Medicine in Early New England (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2002) in Itinerario: European Journal of Overseas History XXVIII June (2004), 83-86.
Invited Lectures:"Images of Irish Savagery and Slavery in the British Atlantic, 1550-1700," Vince Howard Memorial Lecture, Lewis University, Romeville, IL (April 2, 2008)
"The Barbary Pirates and Slavery in the British Empire and Early Republic," Islam and the West: European and American Views of Islam, 1450-1900, Newberry Library Undergraduate Seminar, Chicago, IL (February 18, 2008)
"Slavery and Abolition: Historical Perspectives on a Comtemporary Problem," Seminar for Critical Social Thought, Mt. Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA (April 4, 2007
"In the Court of King Death: Three Tales of Justice Under the Jolly Roger," C.V. Starr Center for American Studies, Washington College, Chestertown, MD (November 5, 2006)
Future and Recent Conference Papers: "Empire and Abolition in the Revolutionary Atlantic," British Group in Early American History Conference, Manchester University, Manchester, UK (September 13, 2008)
- "Commonwealth Principles, Impressment, and the Imperial State, 1647-1661," Workshop on The Armed Forces and British Society, 1650-1790, St. Hilda’s College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK (July 7, 2008)
- "Combustions in the Commonwealth": Radical Politics in the Atlantic World of the English Revolution," Newberry Library Seminar on Early American History and Culture, Chicago, IL (January 17, 2008)
- '"No Mere Mercenary Army': Empire, Unfree Labor, and the English Revolution;” panel organizer, The Imperial State and Unfree Labor in the Atlantic World, 1649-1840," North American Labor History Conference, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI (October 20, 2007)
- "Empire and Abolition in the Revolutionary Atlantic, 1630-1661," Forum for European Expansion and Global Interaction. The Huntington Library, Pasadena, CA. January 2006.
- "The Western Design and Radical Republicanism," International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World. Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. August 2005.
- "'Soldiers in the Army of the Lord': Thomas Venner, Impressment, and Radical Republicanism in the Atlantic World, 1636-1657," Conference on Class and Class Struggles in North America and the Atlantic World, 1500-1800. Bozeman, Montana. September 2003.
- "Hell Broke Loose': London's Coleman Street Ward and the Atlantic World of Radical Republicanism, 1624-1661," International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World. Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. August 2003.
Awards: - Summer Research Grant, Loyola University, 2008
- Short Term Research Grant, International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World, Harvard University, 2006
- Biannual Best Article Prize (co-winner), Labor: Studies in Working-Class Histories of the Americas, "Radical Republicanism, Unfree Labor, and Imperialism in the Atlantic World, 1630-1661," (1 Winter 2004).
- Conference Grant, Forum for European Expansion and Global Interaction, Huntington Library, Pasadena, CA, January 2006
- Conference Grant, International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World, Harvard University, August 2003, August 2005.
- Michael Kraus Research Grant, American Historical Association, May 2003.
- Mary C. Mooney Research Fellow, Boston Athenaeum, August 2003.
- Hays Summer Research Grant, Department of History, University of Pittsburgh, March 2003.
- Summer Research Grant, Center for West European Studies, University of Pittsburgh, February 2003.
- Nominee, Pennsylvania Teacher of Excellence Award, February 2005, 2004, and 2003.
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