I am engaged in a study of rural cultural, political economy and the market in the Mid-Atlantic from 1760 to 1820 and have published on the "consumer revolution" of the late eighteenth century. I have written a history of Rutgers University in the post-World War II period that focuses on student life and student activism. I am currently working on a project with my colleague Johanna Schoen on the way Rutgers has responded to the COVID-19 pandemic.
COURSES TAUGHT
Undergraduate
- 512:103: Development of the United States to 1877
- 512:104: Development of the United States from 1877
- 512:301: The American Revolution
- 512:315: Famous Trials: Civil Liberties and Civil Rights in Modern America
- 512:402: Constitutional History to 1877
- 512:404: Constitutional History from 1877
Graduate
- American PDR I: Early America: North American During the Age of European Expansion
- American PDR II: Early America: America in the Age of Revolution
PUBLICATIONS
- 2015: Rutgers since 1945: A History of the State University of New Jersey
- 1995: Land Use in Early New Jersey (with Peter Wacker)
- 1993: The Uses of Abundance: A History of New Jersey's Economy
- 1980: The Atlantic Economy and Colonial Maryland’s Eastern Shore
AWARDS
- 1981 Albert J. Beveridge Award of the American Historical Society for the best book on the history of the United States, Canada, or Latin America.
- 1982 Lindback Award for Excellence in Teaching
- 1986 National Endowment for the Humanities Grant
- 1986 Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Fellowship
- 2004 Faculty of Arts and Sciences Award for Distinguished Teaching (Tenured Professors)
- 2007 Rutgers University Warren I. Susman Award for Excellence in Teaching, Rutgers University
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
- McNeil Center for Early American Studies
- Omohundro Institute for the Study of Early American History and Culture
- American Historical Association
- Organization of American Historians
