Crowds
and Soldiers in Revolutionary North Carolina: The Culture of Violence
in Riot and War (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2001).
Link
to catalog description
Link to review (H-South)
"The Civilian Experience of War during the American
Revolution," in Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Early America:
From the Colonial Era to the Civil War, eds. David S. Heidler and
Jean T. Heidler (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2007). Link
to catalog description
"Early
American Ways of War: A New Reconaissance, 1600-1815," Historical
Journal 44 (2001): 269-89. Available
from JSTOR
Associate Editor for Peter Karsten, et
al., eds., Encyclopedia of
War and American Society, 3 vols. (New York: Sage
Publications, 2005). Link
to catalog description
Personal Info and Other Projects
I specialize in early modern military history, with a particular
focus on colonial America, Native Americans, and the British
empire. My primary ongoing research project, entitled "Barbarians
and Brothers" investigates wartime violence in intra-societal and
inter-cultural wars in the British Isles and North America between 1500
and 1865. I am also working on the nature of English/British
military relationships with indigenous peoples in Ireland and North
America.
Along the way I have become involved in survey archaeology in
Greece and Albania, as well as an excavation in Hungary, and I continue
to work and publish in that field. Some relevant links are provided
below. At the moment I am a co-director for a project in the
mountains of northern Albania (the Shala Valley Project, SVP).
The historical component of that project examines how the tribal
peoples of those mountains maintained their autonomy from the Ottoman
empire while also providing some military service to the empire.
I was an officer in the U.S. Army (combat engineer) and served in
Germany, Virginia and in the Gulf War. When not working
or teaching I am a blacksmith and a whitewater kayaker.
Link to full C.V. (or, my academic life on a page)
Link to Shala
Valley Project (northern Albania)
Link
to the
Mallakastro Regional Archaeological Project (Albania) (fieldwork
completed)
Link to the Pylos Regional
Archaeological Project (Greece) (fieldwork completed)
Link to the Loudoun Valley
Historical Archaeology Project (LVHAP) (field school discontinued)