· Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.

Professional Experience:

· Member, Board of Directors, Old Colony Historical Society, Taunton, Massachusetts.

· Assistant Director, Center for the Study of New England History, Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, Massachusetts, 1994-1999.

· Referee, William & Mary Quarterly, Journal of the Early Republic.

· Historical Consultant, television production of Laura Thatcher Ulrich, A Midwife's Tale, 1994‑1996.

· Historical Consultant, A&E Network series on history of American Holidays, 1996.

· Director of Colonial Interpretation, Plimoth Plantation, 1982‑1987.

Education:

· Ph.D. Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, 1992. American and New England Studies.

· B.A. Magna cum laude. University of Massachusetts Dartmouth 1980.

Book:

· Celebrating the Fourth: Independence Day and the Rites of Nationalism in the Early Republic. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1997.

CD-ROM:

· Inhabitants and Estates of the Town of Boston, 1630-1800 [published version of project I directed at the Massachusetts Historical Society]. Co-publication of the New England Historical and Genealogical Society and the Massachusetts Historical Society, 2001.

Published Articles:

· “The Paradox of ‘Nationalist’ Festivals: The Case of Palmetto Day in Antebellum Charleston.” In William Pencak, et al, eds., Riot and Revelry in Early America. University Park, PA: Penn State Press, 2002.

· “The Thwing Index: Inhabitants and Estates of the Town of Boston, 1630-1800.” New England Ancestors (Fall 2001).

· “Annie Haven Thwing and the Crooked and Narrow Streets of Boston.” Massachusetts Historical Review 1 (1999).

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· “‘In the Greatest Solemn Dignity:’ The Capitol Cornerstone and Ceremony in the Early Republic.” In Ronald Hoffman and Peter J. Albert. A Republic for the Ages. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1999.

· “The Missionary Journal of John Cotton, Jr., 1666-1678.” Massachusetts Historical Society Proceedings (1999)

· Science, Medicine, & Technology chapter for American Eras: Revolutionary America, 1754-1783. Columbia, South Carolina: Manly, Inc., 1998.

· “Hurrah for the Fourth: Patriotism, Politics, and Independence Day in Federalist Boston, 1777‑1818.” Essex Institute Historical Collections vol. 125 no. 2 (1989): 129‑161.

· “Sinews of Trade, Sinews of War: The Paper Money of Massachusetts.” Massachusetts Paper Money 1690‑1780: The Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Portland, Maine: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1988.

· “‘Our Fathers were Englishmen:’ Reconstructing an Early Seventeenth‑Century ‘American’ Dialect.” American Speech: 1600 to the Present; Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife Annual Proceedings 1983. Boston University, 1985.

Works in Progress:

· New Dictionary of National Biography: entries for Myles Standish, John Underhill, and Edward Winslow.

· Co-editor, The Correspondence of Rev. John Cotton, Jr. (1640-1699). A volume in the Colonial Society of Massachusetts Publications series.

Reviews:

· David Waldstreicher, In the Midst of Perpetual Fetes: (Chapel Hill, 1997), for The American Historical Review.

· John Seelye, Memory’s Nation: The Place of Plymouth Rock, (Chapel Hill, 1999), for The Public Historian.

· Elizabeth C. O’Leary, To Die For: The Paradox of American Patriotism (Princeton, 1999),for The American Historical Review.

· Richard W. Cogley, John Eliot’s Mission to the Indians before King Philip’s War (Cambridge, Mass., 1999), for The William and Mary Quarterly.