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Distinguished Professor, History
Professional Service
- National Endowment for the Humanities.
Role: Proposal Reviewer.
Digital Projects for the Public Fellowship Program.
08/02/2021 - 09/02/2021
- Texas A&M University.
Role: File reviewer.
Promotion to full professor.
05/03/2021 - 07/31/2021
- Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture.
Role: Chair.
Omohundro Institute-National Endowment for the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship Selection Committee.
09/01/2018 - 01/15/2019
- Yale University Press.
Role: Scholarly reviewer.
Book proposal review.
09/01/2017 - 10/30/2017
- Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture.
Role: Committee member.
Program Committee, 24th annual conference.
07/01/2017 - 07/01/2018
- Yale University.
Role: Scholarly reviewer.
Faculty appointment file review.
07/01/2017 - 09/05/2017
- American Historical Association.
Role: Department representative.
Career Diversity Faculty Institute department representative, with Matt Basso, Paul Reeve, and Greg Smoak.
04/15/2017 - 04/15/2018
- New England Quarterly.
Role: Scholarly reviewer.
Article manuscript review.
01/09/2017 - 03/09/2018
- Saugeen First Nation and Chippewas of Nawash Unceded First Nation.
Role: Expert witness.
To prepare a report on aboriginal rights and offer depositions and expert testimony as needed.
12/2012 - 12/2019
- Filson Institute for Advanced Study.
Role: Co-convener with Francois Furstenberg (Universite de Montreal).
“The Long Struggle for the Ohio Valley, 1750-1815,” a two-day symposium sponsored by the Filson Institute for Advanced Study, Louisville, KY.
10/19/2012 - 10/20/2012
- American Historical Association.
Albert J. Beveridge Award prize committee.
2010 - 2012
- Organization of American Historians.
Distinguished Lecturer.
2009 - 2012
- William and Mary Quarterly-Early Modern Studies Institute.
Co-Convener, scholarly workshop on the histories and historiographies of early America.
2009 - 2009
- Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture.
Program Co-chair and Local Arrangements Coordinator for annual conference.
2009 - 2009
- History Compass.
Editor.
2008 - 2010
- Rocky Mountain Seminar in Early American History.
Co-Director.
2006 - present
Internal Service
- Department of Education, Culture, and Society Graduate Council Review.
Internal Reviewer,
10/15/2021 - 04/11/2022.
University service.
- Executive Committee.
member,
07/01/2021 - 06/30/2022.
Department service.
- Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee.
member,
07/01/2021 - 06/30/2022.
Department service.
- Search Committee, African American History.
Chair,
04/15/2021 - 12/15/2021.
Department service.
- Faculty Advisor for Honors, Phi Alpha Theta, and the History Student Association.
Faculty advisor,
08/15/2018 - 06/30/2020.
Department service.
- Tenured Faculty Review Committee.
Chair,
07/01/2018 - 06/30/2019.
Department service.
- Academic Senate.
College of Humanities Representative,
07/01/2016 - 06/30/2019.
University service.
- Graduate Council.
2009 - 2012.
University service.
- Strategic Planning Committee.
2009 - 2012.
Department service.
- Academic Senate--replacement senator.
2009 - 2010.
University service.
- RPT Committee chair.
2009 - 2010.
Department service.
- Internal Reviewer, Department of Ballet.
2009 - 2009.
University service.
- American Indian History search committee.
2008 - 2009.
Department service.
Community Partnership
- "Boston's Massacre," Friends of the Marriott Library Lecture Series.
09/24/2017 - 09/24/2017
- "Boston's Massacre: Military-Civilian Relations in the Anglo-Atlantic World," lecture at the Salt Lake Public Library.
02/25/2013 - 02/25/2013
- “The West and the American Revolution,” lecture funded by a Teaching American History Grant, Alpine School District, American Fork, UT.
11/01/2011 - 11/01/2011
- 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.
06/13/2011 - 06/15/2011
- “George Washington: Leader of Men,” lecture funded by Mount Vernon Teaching Ambassador Program, Elko, NV.
05/06/2011 - 05/07/2011
- Teaching American History grant, Granite School District: steering committee member and presenter.
08/2002 - 08/2011
Honors & Awards
- Elected Member.
American Antiquarian Society,
10/01/2021
- Cox Book Prize, Society of the Cincinnati, for Boston’s Massacre. https://www.societyofthecincinnati.org/scholarship/coxbookprize/
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Society of the Cincinnati,
12/11/2018
- 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,
02/22/2018
- Security Pacific Short-Term Fellowship, 2015-16 academic year.
Huntington Library,
03/2015
- The Herbert H. Lehman Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in New York History (2010).
New York Academy of History,
02/14/2014
- Elected Non-Resident Member.
Colonial Society of Massachusetts,
09/15/2011
- Professor of the Year.
Phi Alpha Theta Alpha Rho chapter,
04/28/2011
- 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. 02/12/2022.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HteISm6PGl4
- "Western Lands Before and After the American Revolution," C-SPAN Lectures in History series. 03/25/2019.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?458769-1/western-lan...
- “1770 Boston Massacre Reconsidered,” Massachusetts Historical Society, on C-SPAN Book TV. 09/12/2018.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?451139-1/1770-boston...
- Interview with Julie Rose, Top of Mind, BYU Radio, "Boston's Massacre.". 06/30/2017.
https://www.byuradio.org/episode/d1f91414-1724-401...
- Interview with Megna Chakrabarty, Radio Boston, WBUR Radio. "What Really Happened In the Boston Massacre?". 03/21/2017.
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. 03/10/2017.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-blood-flows-on-ki...