He earned his masters and PhD degrees at the University of Maryland, College Park and specializes in twentieth-century U.S. history, particularly media and politics. His publications include Sesame Street and the Reform of Children’s Television (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006) and “Nationalizing American Radio: Anti-Monopoly, Nationalism, and the First Alexander Bill, 1915 – 1917” (Journal of Radio & Audio Media, 2011). At Morgan he teaches undergraduate U.S. survey courses, as well as courses in film and in law. He also teaches graduate courses in his specialty and in writing. Besides teaching, he regularly reviews books for Choice, an American Library Association journal, and serves as the assessment coordinator his department.