Introduction
Personal information
After earning a B.S. (1986) in Business Administration at Florida Institute of Technology and working as an internal auditor for a major mutual fund company in Boston, I decided to change careers in 1992. I subsequently earned my M.A. and Ph.D. in American History at the University of New Hampshire, where I currently teach. I have also taught at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell, and at the University of New Hampshire at Manchester.
Teaching interests
These days, I teach one section of the History of Modern America survey (Hist 406) each semester, as well as one section of Introduction to Historical Thinking (Hist 500). My advanced undergraduate courses typically focus on 19th and 20th century American social, political, and cultural history, with an emphasis on reform, radicalism, and social movements. In Fall 1999, for example, I am teaching a course on American Labor History, and will teach a course on the origins of contemporary American culture in the spring. Please see my syllabi page for details on all of the courses I have taught at UNH and elsewhere.
Research interests
My scholarly interests generally focus on struggles for power and competing notions of democracy and citizenship in American history. I have published an article on the failure of the postal system to fulfill its mission as a democratizing institution in the Jacksonian era, and my doctoral dissertation recovers the history of the draft resistance movement of the Vietnam War era (it is currently under consideration at the University of North Carolina Press, Princeton University Press, and Oxford University Press). In addition, I am currently at work on an edited collection of letters from ordinary Americans to Dr. Benjamin Spock regarding the Vietnam War and opposition to it, as well as a monograph on Puerto Rican resistance to the war.
Please see my curriculum vitae for more details on my publications and educational background.
