He graduated with his Ph.D. from the University of Arkansas in May 2013 and is currently revising his dissertation, “‘Up Ewig Ungedeelt’ or ‘A House Divided’: Nationalism and Separatism in the Mid-Nineteenth Century Atlantic World”, which explores the theme of separatism in Schleswig-Holstein during 1848 and the United States during the 1860s. He is currently working on an Atlantic History from 1825 to 1880 and a study of separatism in the North Atlantic between 1830 and 1870. He has a couple of forthcoming articles and is working on new projects that aim for a new understanding of the mid-nineteenth century in U.S. and World history.