Degrees:
Ph.D. Ohio State University 2000
MA University of Georgia 1994
BA Kent State University

Significant Publications / Research:
Becoming Bourgeois: Merchant Culture in the Antebellum and Confederate South./ University Press of Kentucky, 2006.

“The Merchant in Antebellum Southern Literature and Society,”
American Nineteenth Century History/ 6 (March 2005): 33-55.

Research interests:
Nineteenth-Century U.S. History
Civil War & Reconstruction
Old South

Areas of Specialization:
Nineteenth Century USA, Civil War

Memberships:
Organization of American Historians
Southern Historical Association

Courses Taught:
Civil War
Urban History
US surveys

Joined Oswego Faculty: 2001