Fields of specialization include U.S. cultural, religious, gender and recreational history, and the history of the Progressive Era. In addition to teaching U.S. and world history, he has spoken at various academic conferences and published a number of historical articles. He has received a number of fellowships and grants, including a Brandeis Crown Fellowship, a Smithsonian Fellowship, and an American Philosophical Society Research Grant. Areas of specialization include U.S. history, social, labor and economic history, history of technology, world economic history. Former Bunting Institute Fellow.
Primary interests focus on modern European intellectual history and women's history.
Formerly taught at University of Massachusetts, Boston, Clark University and Wheaton College. Published in Ecos, Rethinking Peace, Harpers, and The American Nation among other journals. Fluent in Spanish, reading comprehension in French and Italian. Formerly taught at Columbia Univer- sity, New York University, School of Continuing Education and City University of New York, Staten Island.