RESEARCH & TEACHING INTERESTS
Memory of the American Revolution
Modern American history, from the nineteenth century to the present
Art and Culture in America
Race in America
Transatlantic migration
History of liberalism
Republican thought in the Transatlantic World
History of Social Democracy, from Lassalle to FDR
The politics of American industry, from the “American System” to WWI
Socio-political history of American labor
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in American History, New York University
Dissertation: “Reform in the Age of Capital: The Transatlantic Roots of the American Reform Tradition, 1828–1876”
Passed Dissertation Defense with Distinction: 9 December 2019
Committee: Thomas Bender, Barbara Fields, Eric Foner, Steven Hahn, and Andrew Sartori
Major Field: American History
Minor Field: Museum Studies
Degree Conferral: 17 January 2020
M. Phil. in American History, New York University
Degree conferral: January 2019
Institute for Constitutional Studies, “Thomas Jefferson's Democratic Constitutionalism”
with Profs. Annette Gordon-Reed and Peter Onuf
Fall 2016, New-York Historical Society
M.A., New York University,
John W. Draper MA Program in Humanities & Social Thought
Thesis: “Marx on the American Civil War: Working-Class Politics in the Age of Industrial Capitalism”
Graduated, May 2012
B.A., Visual & Critical Studies
School of the Art Institute of Chicago,
Concentration: Frankfurt School Critical Theory
Graduated, June 2008
B.F.A., Photography & Sculpture
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Dual-Degree Program
Graduated, June 2008
Dissertation defense, 9 December 2019, with Barbara Fields; Thomas Bender; me; Steven Hahn; Eric Foner; and Andrew Sartori.
PUBLICATIONS
“Property and the Problem of Accumulation: Debates in the Early American Republic” in Cahiers Jaurès, special issue on Industrial Democracy, Fall 2026, forthcoming.
“Review: Sean Griffin, The Root and The Branch: Working-Class Reform and Antislavery, 1790–1860,” Labor: Studies in Working-Class History, 23:1, March 2026.
“A Civil Society Divided Against Itself: The Fight for Shorter Hours in Antebellum America,” Modern Intellectual History, 2025, 1–27. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1479244325100279.
“The First International in America: A Cosmopolitan History,” revised and resubmitted (September 2025; March 2026), Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, for the special issue “The Global Gilded Age and Progressive Era,” guest editors Constance Chen and Roberto Saba.
Reform in the Age of Capital: The Social Question in Nineteenth-Century America, book manuscript under contract with the University of Chicago Press for the “Life of Ideas” series (August 2024), forthcoming.
“The Problem of Democracy: Political Traditions in the Revolutions of 1848,” guest contribution to the Journal of the History of Ideas online, March 2018.
“The Divided Legacy of Democracy: The Transformation of the Liberal Political Tradition in the Nineteenth Century” part of the “Challenging Democratic Revolutions” series, Age of Revolutions online, August 2018.
AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS
Harper-Schmidt Fellowship in the Social Sciences, University of Chicago, 2022–2026
Bernard Bellush Prize in Labor History, New York Labor History Association, 2020
Normative Orders Fellowship, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Germany 2019
Global Research Initiative Fellowship, London, UK, NYU 2018
Howard Reese Prize for Best Paper in Diplomatic History 2018
Fulbright U.S. Student Program Fellowship, Germany 2017
Global Research Initiative Fellowship, Berlin, DE, NYU 2016
Jerrold Seigel Fellowship in Intellectual and Cultural History, 2015
Global Research Initiative Fellowship, Washington DC, NYU 2014
Mellon Foundation Grant, NYU 2012
Opportunity Fellowship Program, NYU 2012
Three-year Summer Fellowship, NYU 2012
Dean’s Fellowship, NYU 2012
MacCracken Award, NYU 2008
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Collegiate Assistant Professor in Social Sciences Collegiate Division & Harper-Schmidt Fellow in the University of Chicago Society of Fellows, 2022–ongoing. University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Assistant Instructional Professor, “The Politics and Economics of Capitalism,” Summer Immersion Programs for Pre-College Students, University of Chicago, June–July 2024; June-July 2024, Chicago IL
Assistant Instructional Professor in the Social Sciences Collegiate Division Core sequence, “Power, Identity, Resistance,” September 2021–June 2022. University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
Public Lecturer, “Radical Immigrants in America” December 2017–January 2018. Jefferson Market Branch, New York Public Library, Manhattan, NY.
Adjunct Professor for “World History I”, Social Science and Cultural Studies, January – May, 2017. Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY.
Public Lecturer, “Radical Demands for Land and Freedom in New York, 1829–48” February–March, 2017. Jefferson Market Branch, New York Public Library, Manhattan, NY. Featured in Fred Wiseman’s 2017 documentary, Ex Libris: The New York Public Library.
Adjunct Professor for “World History I”, Social Science and Cultural Studies, August – December, 2016. Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY.
Adjunct Instructor for “Survey of American Civilization Since the Civil War” led by Prof. Mark Carnes. Spring 2016 semester, January–May, 2016. Barnard College, Columbia University, Manhattan, NY.
Public Lecturer, “Reconstruction: ‘America’s Unfinished Revolution,’ 150 Years Later” January–February 2016. Jefferson Market Branch, New York Public Library, Manhattan, NY.
Public Lecturer, “Reform in the Age of Capital: Radical Political Thought in the United States, 1828–1877” October – November 2015. Jefferson Market Branch, New York Public Library, Manhattan, NY.
Adjunct Instructor for “History 101: Capitalism” led by Profs. Karl Appuhn & Andrew Sartori, Fall 2015 semester, August–December, 2015. New York University, Manhattan, NY.
Course Assistant for “African-American History to 1865” led by Prof. Michele Mitchell Fall 2014 semester, August–December. New York University, Manhattan, NY.
VISITING APPOINTMENT
Visiting Scholar, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany, October 2017–November 2018.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Historical Association
Society for United States Intellectual History
American Alliance of Museums
Organization of American Historians