Courses

• Unsettling the Land: Colonialism and State Building in the Revolutionary Ohio Valley. Book manuscript in progress.
• “The Politics of Coalition Building in the Ohio Valley, 1765–1774” to appear in Borderland Narratives: Exploring North America's Contested Spaces, 1500-1850, ed. Glenn Crothers and Andrew Frank, under contract and forthcoming with the University Press of Florida, 2016.
• "Hair and Peace: The Strange Tale of McQuinney's Scalp," to appear in The Specter of Peace in Histories of Violence, ed. Michael Goode and John Smolenski, in progress.
  

• "State Intervention and Extreme Violence in the Eighteenth-Century Ohio Valley," in "Settlers, Imperialism, Genocide," a thematic issue of the Journal for Genocide Research (July 2008)
• "Looking the Other Way: The Gnadenhutten Massacre and the Contextual Interpretation of Violence," in the William and Mary Quarterly (July 2007). Reprinted in abridged form in Theatres of Violence: Massacre, Mass Killing and Atrocity Throughout History, ed. Philip Dwyer and Lyndall Ryan (Berghahn Books, 2012)
  

• “Hair and Peace: The Strange Tale of McQuinney’s Scalp.” Paper presented at “The Specter of Peace in Histories of Violence,” a scholarly conference at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, 2015, www.specterofpeace.com
• "Teaching Critical Reading in the General Education Program: Historical Perspectives.” Paper presented at the UWSP Teaching Conference, “Education as Transformation,” Stevens Point, WI, 2013
• “Government Sponsored Escalation and the Revolutionary War in the West.” Paper presented at the Filson Institute Conference, “The Long Struggle for the Ohio Valley, 1750-1815,” Louisville, KY, 2012
• “The Usefulness of Boundaries in the Post-Revolutionary West.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Western History Association, Oakland, CA, 2011
• “Settlers, States, and Violence in the Revolutionary Ohio Valley.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, Philadelphia, 2011
• “Deconstructing ‘Mingo’: The Revolutionary Histories of Ohio Valley Iroquois Communities.” Paper to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory, Ottawa, 2010.
• “State Formation from the Ground Up: Political Brokers and Coalition Building in the Revolutionary Ohio Valley.” Precirculated paper for the Center Seminar at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 2010.
• “Strategies for Sovereignty.” Public lecture at the Spring Public Conference of the Filson Historical Society, Louisville, KY, 2010.

• National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship at the Huntington Library, San Marino, CA, 2013-14.
• National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowshp at the Newberry Library, Chicago, IL, 2013-14 (declined).
  
• Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/ACLS Recent Doctoral Recipients Fellowship at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Institute for Research in the Humanities, 2009-2010.
• Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship, 2007-2008.
• Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, U.S. Department of Education, 2001-2004, 2005-2006.

• American Historical Association (AHA)
• American Society for Ethnohistory (ASE)
• History SoTL: An International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in History (ISSOTL)
• Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture (OIEAHC)
• Organization of American Historians (OAH)
• Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR)
• Western History Association (WHA)