Welcome. I'm a scholar-in-residence and visiting assistant professor in History at Wabash College. I study urban societies in the nineteenth and early twentieth-century Americas. I'm especially interested in how transnational cultural and human flows, situated in specific spatial contexts, shaped social belonging during the long nineteenth century. Through my courses and research, I examine histories of the urban environment, ideas, im/migration, and cultural production. I'm also excited by the practice and theory of digital approaches to these topics.

My current book project, which began as a prize-winning dissertation at the University of Chicago, explains how a widening range of residents of São Paulo, Brazil, used theaters to hash out the rules of public life in a rapidly changing city. To learn more about this and other projects, please take a look at my research and presentations pages. I've also posted some of my research discoveries on the site's news page, which additionally includes teaching tips and other tidbits. A list of the courses I've taught, along with a few syllabi, can be found on the teaching page.