Faculty Member, History
About
I am a historian of colonial America and early modern European expansion. I have a number of interests within this vast field, including the development of imperial politics, the diffusion of Christianity, intercultural contact and interaction, and the history of exploration. My first book, The Empire Reformed: English America in the Age of the Glorious Revolution, examines how fears of Catholicism galvanized and transformed Anglo-American political culture during the last decades of the seventeenth century.
My current research, tentatively titled "Dreams of Silk and Wine: The Huguenot Diaspora in the Early Modern World," follows the thousands of French Protestant refugees who traveled and settled on the peripheries of the British, Dutch, and French empires during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In addition, I am working on a smaller project, "Murder in Hadley," a microhistory of a 1696 trial in western Massachusetts.
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