Conferences

Note: These conference papers and talks are provided, with the understanding that they represent incomplete works or works-in-progress and should not be cited or quoted from without the express approval of the author.

Roundtables

2025: “The State of the Field – Addressing the Crisis in the History Discipline,” The American Revolution and Its Legacies from 1776 to Today, The Jack Miller Center, September 16, 2025.

2022: “Considering the Revolution: The Identities Created by the American Revolutionary War,” National Park Service Plenary Panel, National Conference on Public History, online, May 6.

2022: “The American Founding in Popular Memory,” 52nd Annual Conference of the Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, (remote), Starkville, MS, February 12.

2021: “What’s Postcolonial about (Settler) Colonial America?” Temple Early American Seminar, (remote), October 4.

2018: “Revolutionary Texts in a Digital Age,” at “Thomas Paine and the Digital Humanities,” International Conference for Thomas Paine Studies, Iona College and the Institute for Thomas Paine Studies, (remote), New Rochelle, NY, October 12.

2018: “Whither the Early Republic: A 40th-Anniversary Forum on the Future of the Field,” plenary roundtable, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, Cleveland, OH, July 21.

2016: “Pushing the Boundaries of History and the ‘Digital World,’” CUNY Early American Republic Seminar Conference, New York, NY, May 13.

2015: “Is There Still a Place for Ideas in Early American History: A Roundtable on the Future of Early American Intellectual History,” Society for U.S. Intellectual History 2015 Conference, Washington D.C., October 18.

2015: “Early American Worlds: A State of the Field Conversation,” Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, St. Louis, MO, April 17.

2015: “Choosing Embargo?: A Roundtable on What to do with your Dissertation,” American Historical Association Annual Meeting, New York, NY, January 3.

Presentations

2025: “Concord and the Popular Memory of the American Revolution,” 1775: A Society on the Brink of War and Revolution, Concord Museum, Concord, MA, April 10-11.

2024: “Nationalizing Revolutionary Archives for the Cold War Public,” Archives of Revolution: A Conference About How We Make the Past, The John Carter Brown Library at Brown University, Providence, RI, June 22.

2017: “Historical Networking and the Institutionalization of History Culture in the Early Republic,” Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR), Philadelphia, PA, July 21.

2015: “‘Banished to the woods of America’: Reimagining the Colonial Past in the Early Republic,” CUNY Early American Republic Seminar Conference, New York, NY, May 1.

2012: “‘Improving the Minds of Our Fellow Citizens’: The Independent Reflector and Print as a Form of Institution-Building in British America,” Society for U.S. Intellectual History Conference, New York, NY, November 1. [canceled due to hurricane]

2012: “Contesting Authority: Cultural Politics and Imperial Anglicanism in the Middle Colonies, 1747-1759,” Conference on New York State History (NYSHA), Niagara, NY, June 15.

2011: “’Every wealthy Dunce is loaded with Honours’: William Livingston’s Cultural Imperative and the Anglophone Enlightenment in Colonial New York City, 1747-1770,” Researching New York Conference, Albany, NY, November 18.

Panels Organized

2017: “Creating the Past in the Early Republic: Critical Perspectives on the Cultural Production of History and Memory,” Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR), Philadelphia, PA, July 21.

2012: “Early America and the Intellectual Foundations of Cultural Institution Building,” Society for U.S. Intellectual History Conference, New York, NY, November 1. Co-organized with Jonathan W. Wilson. [canceled due to hurricane]

Panels Chaired

2023: “Making and Breaking Connections on the Eve of Revolution,” Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR), Philadelphia, PA, July 16.

2019: “Taking Liberties: Memory, Myth, and Identity in Early America,” Organization of American Historians (OAH) Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA, April 4.

2013: Political Economy and Empire in the Early Modern World, MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT, May 4.

Invitation

2025: “The British Constitutional Struggle Over Parliament’s Imperial Authority, 1768-69”, Liberty Fund, Providence, RI, May 8-11.

2025: “The British Constitutional Struggle Over Parliament’s Imperial Authority, 1768-69,” Liberty Fund, Providence, RI, May 8-11.

2024: “The American Revolution and the British Constitutional Struggle: The Innovation of Parliamentary Supremacy, 1765-67,” Liberty Fund, Providence, RI, December 12-15.

2023: “From the Tea Act of 1773 to Independence,” Liberty Fund, Newport, RI, October 12-15.