He studies the nineteenth-century United States, the American West, and digital history. Cameron received his Ph.D. from Stanford University, where he worked at the Spatial History Project and the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA). Before coming to Northeastern he was a postdoctoral fellow at Rutgers University’s Center for Historical Analysis and a Visiting Scholar at the Rachel Carson for Environment and Society in Munich, Germany. His current research project, Gossamer Network: The U.S. Post and State Power in the American West, is a history of the nineteenth-century American state and its role in western expansion. Some of his broader interests include geography, gender history, and information visualization.