He is also director of the Digital Media Studies Program and director of Smiths Island Archaeology Project. With an interest in digital history, he uses the island of Bermuda as a historical laboratory to study the earliest phases of Anglo-American colonization. His most recent book project, Atlantic Crucible: Bermuda and the Beginnings of English America, 1609–1684, follows In the Eye of All Trade: Bermuda, Bermudians, and the Maritime Atlantic World, 1680–1783, which won the American Historical Association’s James A. Rawley Book Prize in Atlantic History.