The Spread of U.S. Slavery, 1790–1860

Welcome. I am a historian of American religion and the nineteenth-century United States, often using computational methods for texts and maps. I am an associate professor in the Department of History and Art History at George Mason University, as well as one of the faculty directors at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media.

If you are interested in following my writing or other work, there are a few places you can find it. Short updates and links posts go on my old-school weblog (or new-school microblog, however you prefer to think about it). This website has a blog for longer, more permanent posts. Here is a page where you can read about what I am currently working on over the next month and semester.