Curriculum Vitae

(selected highlights)

Education:       

Ph.D., History, Boston University, 2022
M.A., History, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 1996
B.A., English, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 1994

Employment (summary):       

Executive Director, Plymouth Antiquarian Society, Plymouth, Massachusetts, 2024 to present
Lecturer in History, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, 2022 to 2024
PhD candidate/Teaching Fellow, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, 2015 to 2022
Executive Director, Pilgrim Hall Museum, Plymouth, Massachusetts, 2013 to 2015
Executive Director, Duxbury Rural and Historical Society, Duxbury, Massachusetts, 1998 to 2013

Selected Awards:

Anne C. Bailey Dissertation Prize, Society of Civil War Historians, 2024
Robert Shotwell Dissertation Fellowship, History Department, Boston University, 2021-2022
Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship, Massachusetts Historical Society, 2019
The Angela J. and James J. Rallis Memorial Award, Boston University, 2019
The Clarimond Mansfield Award, Boston University, 2019
Gerald and Deanne Gitner Family Teaching Prize in History, Boston University, 2018

Selected Publications:

Books:

Duxbury…Past and Present. Duxbury: Duxbury Rural and Historical Society, Inc., 2008.

King Caesar of Duxbury: Exploring the World of Ezra Weston, Shipbuilder and Merchant. Duxbury: Duxbury Rural and Historical Society, Inc., 2006. (Reviewed in Historical Journal of Massachusetts, Spring 2010, 159-161)

Dissertation:

“Architects of Civil War Homecoming: Northern Relief Workers and Returning Union Veterans.” Boston University, 2022.

Editor:

Duxbury Ancient & Modern by Henry A. Fish, updated and expanded edition, editor and author of annotations and new chapter introductions, (Duxbury: Duxbury Rural and Historical Society, Inc., 2012)

Journal articles/anthology chapter:

“’This Most Atrocious Crusade Against Personal Freedom,’: Anti-abolitionist Violence in Boston on the Eve of War,” New England Quarterly, March, 2021
“The Search for Duxbury’s First Burying Ground: Victorian Era Duxbury Discovers its Pilgrim Past,” in Duxbury, Our Pilgrim Story: A 2020 Perspective (Duxbury: Duxbury 2020, Inc., 2020)
“The Cultivation of the Higher Self: William Smith Clark and Agricultural Education,” Historical Journal of Massachusetts, Winter, 2008
“’To Defend Mr. Garrison’: William Cooper Nell and the Personal Politics of Antislavery,” New England Quarterly, September, 1997

Short pieces:

“Kingston and the Civil War,” in Kingston: Tales of Jones River Village, Kingston’s 300 Years. Kingston, MA: Kingston 300th Anniversary Committee, 2025.
“How a Renaissance Man Preserved the Bradford Legacy,” in Kingston: Tales of Jones River Village, Kingston’s 300 Years. Kingston, MA: Kingston 300th Anniversary Committee, 2025.
’Continuing the Work,’ Boston Women and Aid to Civil War Veterans and Families,” The Beehive, the blog of the Massachusetts Historical Society, March 2020
“Vikings in Plymouth Bay before Pilgrims? A Historiographical Sketch of a Myth’s Evolution,” Mayflower Quarterly, September 2014
“Opening the Grave of Myles Standish…Thrice,” Mayflower Quarterly, September 2014
“Sarah Wingate Taylor: The Poet of Clark’s Island,” in The Duxbury Beach Book (Duxbury: Duxbury Beach Reservation, Inc., 2007)