He holds a Ph.D. in History from the University of New Hampshire, an M.S.T. in College Teaching from the University of New Hampshire, an M.A. in History from the University of New Hampshire and Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, and a B.A. in History from Blackburn College. A specialist in early modern Anglo-American historiography, he also studies intellectual history and historiography in the English and Spanish Atlantic worlds, early modern humanism, and America from a hemispheric context. He is currently completing a manuscript titled, "The Origins of American History: Historiography and Historical Thought in the Early Modern English Atlantic World."