
- Associate Professor, History
- Associate Professor, Liberal Studies
- Associate Professor, American Studies
- Associate Professor, Biography and Memoir
Research Interests
- American Intellectual and Cultural History, American Religious History, History of Modern Ireland.
Education
- Ph.D., University of Michigan
Selected Publications
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What is Conceptual History?, with Margrit Pernau, Jan Ifversen and Helge Jordheim.(in progress)
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“Excavating and Explaining the ‘Political’,” Journal of the History of Ideas 79 (forthcoming).
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“Catholic Questions in the New American Republic,” in Marion Casey, ed. Religious Freedom in America: The Case of the People v. Philips (New York: Fordham University Press, 2105).
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“An Intellectual Redescription: Revisiting Kari Palonen’s Quentin Skinner” in
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In Debate with Kari Palonen: Concepts, Politics, Histories, eds. Claudia Wiesner, Evgeny Roschin, Marie-Christine Boilard (Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2014).
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“Why Should We Listen to Mathew Carey?” Early American Studies 11 (2013).
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Dermot MacMurrough; or, the Conquest of Ireland. By John Quincy Adams. New Edition and Introduction (Washington, D.C.: Maunsel Press, 2003).
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The Conundrum of Class: Public Discourse on the Social Order in America. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995).
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"Explaining and Evading Change in Early American Cultural History" in Niall O’Ciosain, ed. Change and Cultural History (Dublin: MacMillan, 2003.)
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"'Papistes' ou 'catholiques'? 'papisme’ ou 'catholicité'? Terminologie confessionnelle et culture politique en Irlande et aux Etats-Unis à la fin du 18e et début du 19e siècle." Revue Dix-Huitième Siècle 34 (2002).
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"The Social Construction of Reality" in Encyclopedia of American Cultural and Intellectual History (New York: MacMillan, 2000).
