He has held visiting fellowships at the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and Edinburgh. His publications have engaged with European intellectual history in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He has published a book on Goethe and the Enlightenment and served as editor for a number of scholarly volumes. He has co-organized conferences on Benjamin Franklin at Cambridge University and Thomas Carlyle at Villanova University and is co-organizing a conference on Transatlantic Ideas of the American Founding at the University of Edinburgh. He is completing a book manuscript on German intellectual history, co-editing volumes on Franklin and Carlyle, and serving as an associate editor of a University of California critical edition of Carlyle's essays. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and holds a D.Phil. from the University of Oxford.