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Associate Professor
Ph.D., Brown University
U.S. Colonial, revolutionary, and early national history

Recent or current undergraduate courses:

• Foundations of America
• Revolutionary America
• Colonial America

Recent or current graduate courses:

• Three Revolutions
• US/European Research Seminar
• Colloquium in U.S. History
• Three Anglo-American Revolutions
• Republics: Ancient and Modern
• Historiography

Significant Publications

• These Daring Disturbers of the Peace: The Struggle for Property and Power in Early New Jersey. Cornell University Press, June, 1999.

Recent Articles:

• "The Rise of Rough Music: Reflections on an Ancient New Custom in Eighteenth-Century New Jersey." To be published in Simon Newman and William Pencak, eds., Riot and Revelry in Early America, Penn State University Press, forthcoming.
• "Colonial Settlements: The Seventeenth Century." To be published in the Encyclopedia of Colonial History, Gordon S. Wood, general editor (Routledge, forthcoming).
• "Pope's Day Revisited, Popular Culture Reconsidered." Explorations in Early American History, Vol. III, (published by Pennsylvania History, The McNeil Center For Early American Studies and The University of Pennsylvania Press), forthcoming, December, 2000.
  
• "The Rise of Magdalena Valleau, Land Rioter." Explorations in Early American History, Vol. I, (published by Pennsylvania History, The McNeil Center For Early American Studies and The University of Pennsylvania Press), December, 1998.
• "The Riddles of a Founding Father." Review essay published in the Washington Post "Book World," Sunday, February 23, 1997, p. 1.
• "Periphery and Center in Revolutionary America." Review article published in Historical Journal, March 1996.
• "Confessions of an American Ranter," Pennsylvania History Vol. 62, No. 2 (Spring 1995): 238-248.

Awards and Fellowships

• Richard P. McCormick Award, New Jersey Historical Commission, 2001
• National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for University Professors, 1995-1996
• The Driscoll Prize, 1994
• New Jersey Historical Commission Research Fellowship, 1994-1995
• National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Research Fellowship, 1993
• The John Lax Fellowship, Brown University, 1991-92
• New Jersey Historical Commission Dissertation Grant, 1991-1992
• Philadelphia Center for Early American Studies Dissertation Fellowship, 1990-1991
• New Jersey Historical Commission Dissertation Grant, 1990-1991
• Fellowship, Brown University, 1986
• University Fellowship, Brown University, 1985 (declined for below)
• Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, 1985-1986
• Structural Steel and Ornamental Iron Association of Northern New Jersey Scholarship, 1980-1984