Degrees:
Ph.D. University of Rochester, 1982.
M.A. University of Rochester 1974
A.B. Harvard, 1971

Specialization:
Colonial and Revolutionary America.
Slavery, South, and Civil War era.
American labor history.

Significant Publications:
1993: Race and Class in Colonial Virginia: Indians, Englishmen, and Africans on the Eastern Shore During the Seventeenth Century, New York & London: Garland Publishing

1988: "A Constricted World: Free Blacks on Virginia's Eastern Shore, 1680-1750: " in Lois Green Carr, et al., eds., Colonial Chesapeake Society, (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press).