Activities and Awards

2025: Finalist, George Washington Book Prize, Mount Vernon/Gilder Lehrman Center for American History/Washington College.

2023-24: Consultant, “Whose Revolution?” Concord Museum, Concord, MA (NEH Public Humanities Grant).

2023-24: Project Scholar, “A New Agora for New York: Museums as Spaces for Democracy,” Museum Association of New York (NEH Public Humanities Grant).

2022−23: Board Member, Connecticut Coalition for History.

2022: Consultant, “New York City Revolutionary Trail,” app, Gotham Center for New York City History.

2013−2021: Producer and Contributor, The JuntoCast, a monthly podcast featuring discussions on early American history.

2021: Curator, “Close Encounters in the Colonies: Treasures from the David M. Rubinstein Americana Collection,” exhibit, New-York Historical Society.

2021: Speaker, History Summit, virtual book festival, March.

2020: Grant Panel Reviewer, National Endowment for the Humanities, November.

2019: Historical Consultant, Hamilton: The Exhibit, Chicago, IL.

2012−2019: Founding Member and Contributing Editor, The Junto: A Group Blog on Early American History.

2018: Producer/Writer, “The Prison Ship Martyrs Monument,” episode in Gotham Center for New York City History podcast series “Sites and Sounds” with Open New York. (Series nominated for The Guides Association of New York City’s award for “Outstanding Achievement in Radio Program or Podcast.”)

2018: Keynote speaker, New Jersey Council for the Social Studies Conference, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, October 22.

2017: Creator, “The Historiography of the American Revolution: A Timeline.” (digital history project)

2017: Co-Organizer, “Ideological Origins at 50: Power, Rights, and the Rise and Fall of Free States,” conference, USC-Early Modern Studies Institute/Yale Center for Historical Enquiry & Social Sciences, April 20-21.

2017: Guest Lecturer, “Alexander Hamilton and the Constitution,” in Alexander Hamilton’s America, online teachers seminar, Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.

2013−2015: Chair, Yale Early American History seminar (YEAH), Yale University.

2014: On-Air Consultant, “Revolution,” a three-part television documentary produced by the Discovery Networks.

2013–2014: Proofreader of The Papers of Benjamin Franklin for Founders Online.

2013: Organizer and Panelist, “History and Education in Contemporary US Politics,” The Left Forum, New York, NY, June 9.

2012−2013: “How to Apply to Graduate School in the Humanities,” invited seminar presentation, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY, April 27 and October 26, 2012 and April 12, 2013.

2012−2013: Co-Chair, Yale Early American History Seminar (YEAH), Yale University.

2012: Member, Graduate Student Panel for External Departmental Review Committee, Department of History, Yale University.

Awards

External

2017-18: Bernard and Irene Schwartz Postdoctoral Fellow, New-York Historical Society.

2017: M. Elaine Rand Fellowship, Smith National Library, Mount Vernon.

2016: W. B. H. Dowse Fellowship, Massachusetts Historical Society.

2016: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship, The Library Company of Philadelphia

2016: McNeil Fellow in Early American History, Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

2015: Nancy Halverson Schless Fellowship, American Philosophical Society.

2015: Short-Term Fellowship, Smith National Library, Mount Vernon.

2014: Patricia and John Klingenstein Fellowship, New-York Historical Society.

2014: Lapidus-OIEAHC Early American and Transatlantic Print Culture Fellowship, Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture.

2014: The Robert M. & Annetta J. Coffelt and Robert M. Coffelt, Jr. Fellowship, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. (declined)

Internal

2017: George Washington Egleston Historical Prize, Yale University.

2015-16: University Dissertation Fellowship, Yale University.

2015-16: Samuel Thorpe Jones and Charles Jones Fellow, Yale University.

2015: Conference Travel Fellowship, Yale University.

2012−2013: Pierre Jay Wurts Fellowship, Yale University.

2011−2012: Danforth Fellowship, Yale University.

2011−2013: University Fellowship, Yale University.

2009−2011: Thomas W. Smith Academic Fellowship, City University of New York.