He received his PhD from Binghamton University where his research focused upon the production of knowledge and the role of a prominent group of anthropologists and historians in denying voice to the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois). His current project, as a short-term fellow at the New-York Historical Society, examines the state archives and interrogates the notion that slavery was integral to the “Iroquois” way of life, a claim uncritically repeated by another powerful group of scholars.