Research Interests

American Early Republic, Diplomacy, Social History

Dissertation

Agents of Exchange: Public Diplomats in U.S. Foreign Affairs, 1783-1818

Education

Millersville University of Pennsylvania, History (2015)
Penn State University, Political Science (2012)

Selected Publications

Teaching

• Department of History, University of Rochester Co-Instructor with Robert Westbrook, Spring 2020 American Movies in Their Moment: The Silver Age, 1968-1980
• Instructor--  The History of Espionage (Fall 2019)
• Instructor-- Alexander Hamilton's Atlantic World (Summer 2018)
• Teaching Assistant-- Hitler's Germany (Thomas Fleichman, Spring 2018)
• Teaching Assistant-- History of Mortality (Thomas Devaney, Spring 2018)
• Teaching Assistant-- Modern China (Dahpon Ho, Fall 2017)
• Teaching Assistant-- Smith's Island Archaeology Field School (Mike Jarvis, Summer 2017)

Honors

• 2019--Summer Fellow, Seminar on History and Statecraft at the Clements Center for National Security at the University of Texas, Austin 
• 2018-- Visiting Junior Fellow at the Bruce Centre for American Studies, Keele University