Assistant Professor of History
203 Ramer History House
(610) 330-5168
(610) 330-5176

Degrees

  • PhD., Harvard University

Teaching interests: United States history; Atlantic world; slavery, race, and capitalism; labor history; environmental history; spatial history

Research interests: United States history; Atlantic world; slavery and capitalism; labor history; environmental history; the social and spatial history of illumination

Dissertation: “American Lucifers: Makers and Masters of the Means of Light, 1750-1900”

Honors: Presidential Scholar Fellowship, Harvard University, 2008-2014; Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, Harvard University, 2011 and 2013; Project on Justice, Welfare and Economics Fellowship, Harvard University