Curriculum vitae

  • Ph.D., History
    William & Mary
    January 2024
    Dissertation: "When the Declaration of Independence was News"

    M.A., History
    William & Mary
    May 2019

    B.A., History
    Johns Hopkins University
    December 2011

  • Museum of the American Revolution
    Historian and Scholarly Consultant (2022–)
    Guest Curator, The Declaration’s Journey

    Historic Trappe
    Historian and Consulting Curator (2024–)

    Americana Insights
    Managing Editor (2025–)

    American Philosophical Society Library & Museum
    Consultant, These Truths (2024–2026)

    Common Press, University of Pennsylvania
    Advisor, The Typography of Independence (2025–2026)

    Friends of Chester County 250
    Advisor, Dare to Declare (2025–2026)

  • When the Declaration of Independence was News (Oxford University Press, 2026)

    Rethinking the Revolution in New York, ed. Thomas S. Wermuth, Davin Lander, Jennifer Lemak, and Robert Chiles (Cornell University Press, 2026)
    “‘Fix It Up, In Open View’: The Declaration of Independence in Wartime New York”

    ‘76 Objects (American Historical Review Special Volume, 2026)
    “A Soldier’s Annotated Declaration”

    The Declaration’s Journey Exhibition Catalog, co-authored with Philip C. Mead, Amy Noel Ellison, and Matthew Skic (Museum of the American Revolution, 2025)

  • Common Sense at 250: Legacies of Democracy from Paine to Today (January 2026)

    American Historical Association (January 2025)

    Slave Dwelling Project (October 2024)

    Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (July 2024)

    Archives of Revolution (June 2024)

    American Political History Conference (June 2024)

    Communication and Power in Early America (October 2023)

    Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (July 2023)

  • Common Press, The Typography of Independence
    “Spreading News During Revolutionary Times” (2025)

    Museum of the American Revolution
    “The Declaration Around the World: Chile” (2025)

    Contingent Magazine
    “Snatches of Uncertain Information” (Review of Jordan E. Taylor, Misinformation Nation: Foreign News and the Politics of Truth in Revolutionary America) (2023)

    Age of Revolutions
    “Spooked Horse or Spooked President? John Gilpin, James Madison, and ‘The Bladensburg Races’” (2021)
    “Convulsions Within: When Printing the Declaration of Independence Turns Partisan” (2018)

    Uncommon Sense Blog
    “The Sounds of Independence” (2019)

    Georgian Papers Programme Blog
    “The Curious World of Benjamin Franklin: Hans Sloane, the British Museum, and an Asbestos Purse” (2019)

    The Junto Blog
    “Roundtable: Telling the Story of the Declaration” (2017)

    Highlights from Course of Human Events, the Declaration Resources Project Blog:

  • Worlds Turned Upside Down Podcast (forthcoming)

    WHYY, The Declaration’s Journey Digital Series (2025)

    Revolution 250 Podcast (2025)

    Ben Franklin’s World Podcast (2025)
    Episode 415

    Your Most Obedient & Humble Servant Podcast (2025)
    Episode 58

    American Public Television, We Hold These Truths: The Global Quest for Liberty (2023)

  • McNeil Center for Early American Studies
    Cincinnati Barra Dissertation Fellow (2022-2023)

    John Carter Brown Library
    Fellowship (2022)

    OIEAHC
    Lapidus-OI Fellowship for Graduate Research in Early American Print Culture (2022)

    SHAFR
    Samuel Flagg Bemis Dissertation Research Grant (2022)

    William & Mary Graduate Studies Advisory Board
    Humanities Research Fund Award (2022)

    Harrison Ruffin Tyler Department of History, William & Mary
    John E. Selby Teaching Fellowship (2021-2022)
    Judith Ewell Award in Comparative and Transnational History (2020-2021)

  • Harrison Ruffin Tyler Department of History, William & Mary
    Teaching Fellow (Instructor of Record), HIST 211 Early American News (Fall 2021)
    Teaching Assistant, HIST 192 Global History Since 1500 (Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021)

    Pre-College Program in American History, NIAHD
    Instructor, Founders and Foundings (Summer 2021)

  • History/Civics Fellow for Our Declaration Course
    Civic Learning Institute (2024)

    1776, American Repertory Theater
    Research Consultant (2020)

    OIEAHC
    Digital Apprentice for Ben Franklin’s World Podcast (2018-2019)

    Declaration Resources Project, Harvard University
    Research Manager (2015-2018)

    Institute for Advanced Study
    Research Consultant to Danielle Allen (2014-2015)

    American Philosophical Society Library & Museum
    Research Associate (2013-2014)