Associate Professor of History, UMass Lowell
Expertise
Early American History, Public History
Research Interests
Legal and Political History, the Eighteenth-century Anglo-American Atlantic world, and Material Culture.
My current book project examines rebellions in 1760s British North America from both local and imperial perspectives.
Education
Ph D: History, (2008), University of Maine at Orono - Orono, ME
Dissertation/Thesis Title: At the Magistrate's Discretion: Sexual Crime and New England Law, 1636-1718
MA: American History, (2002), University of Massachusetts Amherst - Amherst, MA
Supporting Area: Public History
BA: History, (1996), Colby College - Waterville, ME
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