I'm an assistant professor in the Department of History and the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy. I received my PhD from Yale University, after which I was a Junior Visiting Fellow at the Center for Humanities & Information at Penn State.

I teach courses on early North American, Atlantic, and Indigenous history. My research is similarly aligned, revolving around the intersections of eighteenth-century European and Indigenous peoples and empires, with general interests in state formation, historical geography, and knowledge production.

My first book, Roads to Power, Roads to Crisis: The War for the American Interior and the Infrastructural Routes of Revolution is forthcoming this summer with the University of Pennsylvania Press as part of their Early American Studies series. This book maps the long Seven Years' War for the American Interior and reconstructs the inter-imperial roots of the American Revolution. Support for this research came from a Chateaubriand Fellowship from the Embassy of France, as well as funding from the Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture, the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, the George Washington Presidential Library, the Huntington Library, the American Philosophical Society, the William L. Clements Library, and the Library Company of Philadelphia, among others. 

I've published work on Kanien’kéha (Mohawk) translation in early American material texts and on the global 18th-century British Empire. I've also co-edited a volume, Inlands: Empires, Contested Interiors, and the Connection of the World (Columbia University Press, 2024), which brings together scholars working on empires and interiors around the globe, from the eighteenth through the twentieth century.

My current book project, Path Diplomacy and the Landscape of Politics: Remapping Sovereignty in Early America, turns to the spatial politics of Indigenous and Euro-American transportation landscapes, from pre-contact through the rise of the early American state. ​My other on-going project, which centers on William Johnson and the Brant family, uncovers a cultural and political campaign to create a genteel Mohawk elite in pre-revolutionary New York.