Welcome
I am a historian of the twentieth-century United States and an associate professor of history at George Mason University. I study the interactions between Americans and their physical surroundings: cities, landscapes, and technology. I am also interested in research ethics.
I am at work on two books, entitled Ethical Imperialism: Institutional Review Boards and the Social Sciences, 1965-2009 and, tentatively, The Militia and the Mob: The National Guard in Urban Riots, 1812-1992.
The blog formerly on this site has been the target of repeated hacking, so I have removed it for the time being.