He holds a PhD in American Studies from the College of William & Mary. He is the author of The Networked Wilderness: Communicating in Early New England (University of Minnesota Press, 2010), a study of intercultural communication interactions in colonial America. He is writing a book on intercultural theory and method in early American studies and, with Jeffrey Glover, editing a collection of essays on media and power in the colonial Americas, Early American Mediascapes: Communication and Colonization (forthcoming from the University of Nebraska Press). AMS 391 •