His scholarly interests center around the issues of slavery, abolitionism, race, and politics in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Wood received his BA at Rutgers University – New Brunswick, his MA at Rutgers University – Camden, and his PhD from the University of Virginia. His research has been supported by a Cassius Marcellus Clay postdoctoral fellowship at Yale University, a National Endowment for the Humanities postdoctoral fellowship at the Library Company of Philadelphia and a dissertation fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania’s McNeil Center for Early American studies.