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I study the intellectual and political culture of the Early American Republic, roughly 1776 to the 1850s. I received a Ph.D. in history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (go Heels!) in 2003 and taught at Tulane University from 2003-2005 before coming to UAB. I am working on a book tentatively titled Love and War: Thomas Jefferson and the Making of an American Nationalism. A version of one chapter appeared in the Journal of American History in June of 2008 as "Thomas Jefferson's Gender Frontier."

Teaching Areas:
History of the U.S., Colonial British America, American Revolution, Antebellum U.S. History, American Intellectual History, Nationalism, Gender and History of Women, Twentieth-Century Global History.

Recent Courses:
Survey courses 
U.S. to 1865
U.S. since 1865
World since 1945
Cultural Diversity in the World since 1945

Upper-level courses
Colonial British America; American Revolution
Seminar on Jefferson and Lincoln
Capitalism and Democracy in the Early American Republic
Cultural Diversity and Social Theory
Identity and Culture in the U.S. South
The Age of Jackson
The Early American Republic, 1783-1815
U.S. Since 1945
Federalists vs. Antifederalists: The Debate over the Constitution

Graduate Seminars
Age of Jefferson
Capitalism and Democracy in the Early American Republic: The Historiography of the Market Revolution
Jefferson and the American Enlightenment
Historiography of the American Revolution (Spring 2009)