UMass Boston

Visual Culture Studies, particularly the history of photography, cartooning, and early cinema (late 19th and early 20th centuries); American Food Culture Studies; Cultural Analysis of Radio Broadcasting, 1930s-1950s; American Imperialism, the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars; History of American Journalism/Print Culture

PhD, History, Johns Hopkins University

• From Liberation to Conquest: The Visual and Popular Cultures of the Spanish-American War (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2011).
• “‘Remember the Alamo’ to ‘Remember the Maine’: The Visual Ideologies of the Mexican and Spanish-American Wars,” In The Martial Imagination: Cultural Aspects of American Warfare, ed. Jimmy L. Bryan, Jr. (Texas A&M Press, 2013).
• “The Image-makers’ Arsenal in an Age of War and Empire, 1898-99: A Cartoon Essay, Featuring the Work of Charles Bartholomew (of the Minneapolis Journal) and Albert Wilbur Steele (of the Denver Post)” The Journal of American Studies 45.1 (2011): 53-75.
• “The Incoherencies of Empire: The ‘Imperial’ Image of the Indian at the Omaha World’s Fairs of 1898-99,” American Studies 49 (Fall/Winter 2008): 5-28.
• “The Evolution of a Fast Food Phenomenon: The Case of American Pizza,” In Routledge History of Food, ed. Carol Helstosky. (forthcoming 2014, Routledge)