I teach the US survey courses (Hist 146, 147, and 148), World Civilizations (Hist 126, 127, and 128), and American Military History from the Colonial Period to the Present (Hist 212).
My face-to-face classes incorporate immersive role-playing games with more traditional lecture materials.
Ph.D., University of Washington
M.A., B.A., Simon Fraser University
Teaching & Learning Grant, 2014, 2017, 2018
Virtual Campus Committee Grant, 2014, 2015, 2017
Exceptional Faculty Award, 2016
Power and Identity
Imperialism
19th Century North America
Race and Gender
Gold Rush Manliness: Race and Gender on the Pacific Slope. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2018.
The Society of Death and Anglo-American Conspiracy Theories in Gold Rush California, 1849 – 1858, in Conspiracy Theories in the United States and the Middle East: A Comparative Approach, edited by Michael Butter and Maurus Reinkowski (New York: de Gruyter, 2014).
"Life’s Prizes are by Labor Got: Risk, Reward, and White Manliness in the California Gold Rush” Pacific Historical Review. August 2011. Volume 80, No. 3.
