B.A. (History) SUNY Buffalo, 2010.  M.A. (History) Ohio State University, 2012.  A.B.D. Ohio State University, 2012

My dissertation looks at education, especially academies (high-level secondary schools), in the mid-Atlantic and upper South from the First Great Awakening to the 1820s. I make a conscious effort to bridge the colonial, revolutionary, and early republican periods, showing how education reveals broad continuities in the process of state formation and the construction of a social order.

I also maintain a research interest in the constitutional and legal history of revolutionary and early national America, which I began pursuing as an undergraduate. I have an article, entitled “Doughfaces at the Founding: Federalists, Anti-Federalists, Slavery, and the Ratification of the Constitution in New York,” published in the summer 2012 issue of New York History. It is available here: http://www.academia.edu/2057149/Doughfaces_at_the_Founding_Federalists_A....

For the 2013-2014 academic year I will co-organize the Ohio Seminar in Early American History and Culture (http://history.osu.edu/ohioseminar).