Expertise

National identity, the federal state, masculinity, disability, and law particularly interest me.

Keywords:

  • 1350 to 1800
  • 19th century
  • U.S. History
  • Age of Revolutions
  • Empire and Colonialism
  • Gender and Sexuality
  • Politics and Constitutional History

I am a social and cultural historian of early America and the United States, working primarily in the Revolutionary period. National identity, the federal state, masculinity, disability, and law particularly interest me. 

My research reveals the many ways that political ideologies, social norms, medical technologies, labor practices, bureaucratic infrastructures, and domestic arrangements collectively shaped the lived experiences of Revolutionary veterans as they struggled for subsistence in Jefferson's yeoman republic.

Research Interests

  • early American history
  • the American Revolution
  • social and cultural history
  • disability
Past Affiliations

Associate Professor, Department of History, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of Arizona (past)

Affiliate Faculty, Department of Gender and Women's Studies, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of Arizona (past)

Associate Professor, Department of Gender and Women's Studies, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of Arizona (past)

Communities
History
Degrees
PhD, Brandeis University, American History, 2004
MA, Bowling Green State University, American Culture Studies, 1996
JD, University of Kentucky, 1994
BA, University of the South at Sewanee, American Studies, 1991