Overview
I am a historian of U.S. foreign relations and teach classes on diplomatic, military and global history.
I was previously a visiting fellow at Yale and Boston Universities. Before coming to Cornell I taught American and European History at the University of Cambridge, where I also received my PhD.
My book on sexual violence and the U.S. military justice system in World War II is forthcoming with Oxford University Press. I have also edited, with Andrew Buchanan, a new collection on the global history of World War II, titled The Greater Second World War, which will be published with Cornell University Press next Spring. I am currently writing about the U.S. military in Alaska.
I am interested in hearing from prospective graduate students wishing to conduct research on topics in U.S. military history, geopolitics, and/ or the global Second World War.
Research Focus
Publications
With Andrew Buchanan, “Hopes Foreclosed and a World Remade: The Long Endings of World War II”, in The Greater Second World War: Global Perspectives eds. Andrew Buchanan and Ruth Lawlor (Ithaca, NY: Cornell, 2025).
With Andrew Buchanan, “Latin America, the Good Neighbor and the Global Second World War”, Antíteses (forthcoming)
“The Stuttgart Incident: Sexual Violence and the Uses of History”, Diplomatic History Volume 46, Issue 1, January 2022: 70–96
“The Wartime Battlefield of Sex”, Modern American History, Vol. 4 Issue 2 (July, 2021): 209-212
“Contested Crimes: Race, Gender, and Nation in GI Histories of Sexual Crime, World War II”, Journal of Military History, Vol. 84 Issue 2 (April, 2020): 541-569
“Working with Death”, AHA Perspectives, December 15, 2020
