B.A. Marist College M.A. SUNY Albany Ph.D. Binghamton University

Early American History, Hudson River Valley History & Culture

Project Director of a $500,000 National Endowment for the Humanities Challenge Grant (2009) for the Hudson River Valley Institute.

Fellow, New York Academy of History, 2007-present.

Books

America's First River: The History and Culture of the Hudson River Valley, edited with James Johnson. State University of New York Press, 2009.

Rip Van Winkle's Neighbors: The Transformation of Rural Society in the Hudson River Valley, 1720-1850. State University of New York Press, 2002.

Articles

"After the Halfmoon: New Approaches to the Study of Henry Hudson and the Hudson River Valley," William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd Ser., VLXVII, No. 4 (2010), pp.775-784. (review essay)

"The Central Hudson Valley in the American Revolution," in Joseph Tiedeman, ed., The Other New York: The Revolution Outside New York City, (SUNY-Press, 2006), pp.127-155.