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Distinguished Professor, History
Professional Service
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Role: Proposal Reviewer.
Entity: National Endowment for the Humanities Digital Projects for the Public Fellowship Program.
2021 - 2021
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Role: File Reviewer.
Entity: Texas A&M University Promotion to full professor.
2021 - 2021
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Role: Chair.
Entity: Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture Omohundro Institute-National Endowment for the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship Selection Committee.
2018 - 2019
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"Boston's Massacre," Friends of the Marriott Library Lecture Series.
2017 - 2017
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Role: Scholarly Reviewer.
Entity: Yale University Press Book proposal review.
2017 - 2017
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Role: Committee Member.
Entity: Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture Program Committee, 24th annual conference.
2017 - 2018
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Role: Scholarly Reviewer.
Entity: Yale University Faculty appointment file review.
2017 - 2017
- American Historical Association.
Role: Department Representative.
Career Diversity Faculty Institute department representative, with Matt Basso, Paul Reeve, and Greg Smoak.
2017 - 2018
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Role: Scholarly Reviewer.
Entity: New England Quarterly Article manuscript review.
2017 - 2018
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"Boston's Massacre: Military-Civilian Relations in the Anglo-Atlantic World," lecture at the Salt Lake Public Library.
2013 - 2013
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Role: Expert Witness.
Entity: Saugeen First Nation and Chippewas of Nawash Unceded First Nation To prepare a report on aboriginal rights and offer depositions and expert testimony as needed.
2012 - 2019
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Role: Co-Convener With Francois Furstenberg (Universite De Montreal).
Entity: Filson Institute for Advanced Study “The Long Struggle for the Ohio Valley, 1750-1815,” a two-day symposium sponsored by the Filson Institute for Advanced Study, Louisville, KY.
2012 - 2012
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“The West and the American Revolution,” lecture funded by a Teaching American History Grant, Alpine School District, American Fork, UT.
2011 - 2011
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Lead historian, “Native Americans and Europeans in Greater Indiana, 1500-1800,” a 3- day teacher workshop sponsored by Gilder Lehrman, funded by a Teaching American History grant, and offered as part of the OAH Distinguished Lecture program, Goshen, IN.
2011 - 2011
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“George Washington: Leader of Men,” lecture funded by Mount Vernon Teaching Ambassador Program, Elko, NV.
2011 - 2011
- American Historical Association.
Albert J. Beveridge Award prize committee.
2010 - 2012
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Entity: William and Mary Quarterly-Early Modern Studies Institute Co-Convener, scholarly workshop on the histories and historiographies of early America.
2009 - 2009
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Entity: Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture Program Co-chair and Local Arrangements Coordinator for annual conference.
2009 - 2009
- Organization of American Historians.
Distinguished Lecturer.
2009 - 2012
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Entity: History Compass Editor.
2008 - 2010
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Entity: Rocky Mountain Seminar in Early American History Co-Director.
2006 - present
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Teaching American History grant, Granite School District: steering committee member and presenter.
2002 - 2011
Internal Service
- Department of Education, Culture, and Society Graduate Council Review.
Internal Reviewer,
2021 - 2022.
service.
- Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee.
Member,
2021 - 2022.
service.
- Executive Committee.
Member,
2021 - 2022.
service.
- Search Committee, African American History.
Chair,
2021 - 2021.
service.
- Faculty Advisor for Honors, Phi Alpha Theta, and the History Student Association.
Faculty Advisor,
2018 - 2020.
service.
- Tenured Faculty Review Committee.
Chair,
2018 - 2019.
service.
- Academic Senate.
College Of Humanities Representative,
2016 - 2019.
service.
- Academic Senate--replacement senator.
2009 - 2010.
service.
- Strategic Planning Committee.
2009 - 2012.
service.
- RPT Committee chair.
2009 - 2010.
service.
- Graduate Council.
2009 - 2012.
service.
- Internal Reviewer, Department of Ballet.
2009 - 2009.
service.
- American Indian History search committee.
2008 - 2009.
service.
Honors & Awards
- Cox Book Prize, Society of the Cincinnati, for Boston’s Massacre. https://www.societyofthecincinnati.org/scholarship/coxbookprize/.
Society of the Cincinnati,
2018
- Finalist, George Washington Prize, 2018, for Boston's Massacre. News release: http://www.mountvernon.org/about/news/article/seven-books-named-as-finalists-for-the-2018-george-washington-prize/.
Gilder Lehrman Institute, Mount Vernon, and Washington College,
2018
- Security Pacific Short-Term Fellowship, 2015-16 academic year.
Huntington Library,
2015
- The Herbert H. Lehman Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in New York History (2010).
New York Academy of History,
2014
- Elected Non-Resident Member.
Colonial Society of Massachusetts,
2011
- Professor of the Year.
Phi Alpha Theta Alpha Rho chapter,
2011
- Dixon Ryan Fox Prize.
New York State Historical Association,
2009
In the Media
- “Wars of Independence and Revolution in the Americas, 1775-1825: Structures, Continuities, Comparisons,” Newberry Library YouTube Channel. 2022.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HteISm6PGl4
- "Western Lands Before and After the American Revolution," C-SPAN Lectures in History series. 2019.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?458769-1/western-lan...
- “1770 Boston Massacre Reconsidered,” Massachusetts Historical Society, on C-SPAN Book TV. 2018.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?451139-1/1770-boston...
- Interview with Julie Rose, Top of Mind, BYU Radio, "Boston's Massacre.". 2017.
https://www.byuradio.org/episode/d1f91414-1724-401...
- Interview with Megna Chakrabarty, Radio Boston, WBUR Radio. "What Really Happened In the Boston Massacre?". 2017.
http://www.wbur.org/radioboston/2017/03/21/boston-...
- Mark Spencer, "The Blood Flows on King Street," Wall Street Journal: review of Boston's Massacre. 2017.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-blood-flows-on-ki...