I am an Associate Professor of History at Williams College. Previously I was a member of the History faculty at Mount Holyoke College. I research and teach courses on early American history, Native American and Indigenous Studies, cartography, material culture, cross-cultural communications, memory and representations, and related topics. Critical studies of race, ethnicity, and colonialism shape my approaches. I grew up and attended public schools in Manchester, New Hampshire.
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in American Studies, Yale University, 2012
M.Phil. in American Studies, Yale University, 2010
M.A. in History, Yale University, 2009
M.Litt. in Environmental History, University of St Andrews, Scotland, 2007
A.B. in History and Literature, summa cum laude, Harvard College, 2006
SELECTED HONORS, AWARDS, & FELLOWSHIPS
Reese Fellow in the Print Culture of the Americas, William L. Clements Library, 2022
Co-PI from Williams College, with Drs. Joy James and Leticia S.E. Haynes, on “Reimagining New England Histories: Historical Injustice, Sovereignty, and Freedom,” supported by grant from Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s “Just Futures” Program. 3-year, multi-institutional collaboration among Brown University’s Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice, and Mystic Seaport Museum, 2021-2023
Douglass Adair Prize, awarded biennially to the best article published in the William and Mary Quarterly during the preceding six years (for “Fugitive Collections in New England Indian Country,” Jan. 2018), 2020
Lois P. Rudnick Book Prize, New England American Studies Association, for Memory Lands, 2020
Whiting Foundation Public Engagement Seed Grant, for “Footprints of Our Ancestors: Interpreting Stockbridge-Munsee Mohican Heritage in Massachusetts,” 2020
Elected member, American Antiquarian Society, 2018
Long-Term Fellowship at the Newberry Library (Lloyd Lewis in American History Fellowship, Monticello College Foundation Fellowship, and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship), 2018-2019
National Endowment for the Humanities Long-Term Fellowship at the American Antiquarian Society, 2016
Short-Term Fellowship at the John Carter Brown Library, and John M. Monteiro Fellow in Indigenous Studies, 2015
Michael Kraus Research Grant in American Colonial History, American Historical Association, 2014
W.B.H. Dowse Fellowship, Massachusetts Historical Society, 2013
John Addison Porter dissertation prize (for scholarship of “general human interest,” in any field), Yale University, 2013
First runner-up, Allan Nevins Prize from the Society of American Historians, for “best-written doctoral dissertation on an American subject,” 2013
Louis Pelzer Memorial Award from the Organization of American Historians for best graduate student essay on an American history topic, 2011
Newberry Consortium in American Indian Studies Graduate Fellowship, 2011
Council on Library and Information Resources-Mellon Foundation Fellowship for Dissertation Research in Original Sources, 2010
Phillips Fund for Native American Research Grant, American Philosophical Society, 2010
New England Regional Fellowship Consortium research grant, 2010
Gilder Lehrman Center at Yale for Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition grant, 2010
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale research fellowship, 2010
Social Science Research Council Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship, 2009
Frank Knox Fellowship, used for postgraduate study at University of St Andrews, 2006
Thomas T. Hoopes Prize for Harvard College senior thesis, 2006
Nation-Building Fellowship, Harvard University Native American Program, 2006
Phi Beta Kappa, Harvard College 2005
Massaro Prize for year’s best historical article published in Italian Americana, 2003
United States Presidential Scholar, 2002