Biography

Education

• PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2014
  • Predoctoral Fellow, International Security Studies, Yale University, 2013-2014
• MA, Florida State University, 2010
• BS, Troy University, 2008
   

Professional History

• Assistant Professor of Military History, Marine Corps University Command and Staff College, August 2021 –
• Naval Historian, Naval History and Heritage Command, March 2018 – August 2021
   

Selected Publications

• Books and book chapters:
  • Commanding Petty Despots: The American Navy in the Early Republic, Naval Institute Press, 2022
  • “The U.S. Military in the Constitution,” Katherine Carroll and William Hickman, eds., Understanding the U.S. Military, Routledge Press, 2023
• Articles:
  • “News Has Been Secondary to Service: Josephus Daniels, William Sims, and the American Press in World War I,” Journal of Military History, forthcoming.
  • “There Will Still Remain Heroes and Patriots: The Politics of Resignation in the Early American Navy, 1794-1815,” Journal of Military History 84 no. 2 (2020), 369-394.
  • “The Most Terrifying Experience: The U.S. Navy and the Pandemic of 1918,” October 20, 2020, Naval History and Heritage Command website, https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/browse-by-topic/wars-conflicts-and-operations/world-war-i/history/terrifying-experience.html
• Documentary Histories:
  • Editorial team – “U.S. Navy in World War I: A Documentary History,” 2017-2019, Naval History and Heritage Command webpage, https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/research/publications/documentary-histories/wwi.html