Education
- 1990 - B.A., Pomona College
- 1993 - M.A., University of California, Santa Barbara
- 1999 - Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara
My research has studied the way in which the American Civil War influenced British discussions concerning politics, society, nationality, race, and military affairs. In Ambivalent Nation: How Britons Imagined the American Civil War, I argued that the post-colonial nature of the antebellum Anglo-American relationship influenced the way in which British commentators perceived America's greatest crisis.
Currently, I’m working on a manuscript about the experience of soldiering in one Civil War regiment, the 5th New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, which lost more combat fatalities than any other federal infantry unit during the conflict. You can find out more on my research blog.
My teaching revolves mainly around modern European history (with an emphasis on Britain and France) and military history. The following courses constitute my normal teaching rotation. For more information, regarding my teaching interests visit my personal faculty website.
“Civil War Diplomacy” in The Routledge History of U.S. Foreign Relations, ed. Tyson Reeder (New York: Routledge, 2021)
Ambivalent Nation: How Britons Imagined the American Civil War (Louisiana State University Press, June 2018).
- History 103: War and Revolution in the Modern World
- History 226: Modern Europe, 1789-1945
- History 326: Modern Britain, 1688 to the present
- History 332: Modern France, 1789-1989
- History 333: Europe since 1945
- History 352: Civil War and Reconstruction
- History 384: The British Empire, 1760-1997
- History 386: World War II
- History 481: History Research Seminar
- History 489: History Reading Seminar: George Orwell and the 20th Century