I received my B.A. from Syracuse University (1989) and my M.A. and Ph.D. at the College of William and Mary (1991 and 1997). Before Worcester State, I taught at several institutions in Virginia and Massachusetts, including the College of William and Mary, Hampton University, Curry College, Salem State College, Bridgewater State College and the University of Massachusetts-Boston.

I am the author of Keeping the Republic: Ideology and Early American Diplomacy (Northern Illinois University Press, 2004), as well as several book reviews and encyclopedia entries. My specialties are the history of American foreign relations and the age of the American Revolution and early republic.