Courses Taught: U.S. Constitutional and Legal History; Jacksonian America, 1815-1850; U.S. Expansion to the Gulf Coast and the Fate of the Seminole Indians, 1763-1858; Historic and Heritage Preservation.

Specialties: Jacksonian Era, Borderlands, U.S. Constitutional and Legal History

Current Research Interests: [Early America]: States’ Rights Whigs, Southern agrarian thought in the age of Jackson, federal Indian policy during the Monroe administration, the Michigan-Ohio boundary crisis and presidential politics in 1836; [Historic Preservation]: planning heritage areas, corridors, and parkways.

Brief Vitae

Education: Ph.D., Mississippi State University, 2001; M.A., Southwest Missouri State University, 1996; B.A., Drury College, 1990.

Awards and Honors:

• Winner of the 2003-2004 Missouri Historical Review Best Article Award
• Winner of the 47th Annual Missouri Conference on History Best Article Award
• Awarded in 2004 and presented by the Secretary of the Interior, the Bureau of Land Management’s prestigious Director’s 4Cs Award, for Consultation, Cooperation, and Communication, all in the service of Conservation.

Notable Articles/Publications:
The Invincible Duff Green: Whig of the West (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2006) [note: this book will be available in the spring of 2006]

“A Founding Missourian: Duff Green and Missouri’s Formative Years, 1816-1825. Part I.” Missouri Historical Review 98(2)(January 2004): 93-114.

“A Founding Missourian: Duff Green and Missouri's Formative Years, 1816-1825. Part II.” Missouri Historical Review 98(3)(April 2004): 177-200.

“John C. Calhoun and the Creation of the Bureau of Indian Affairs: An Essay on Political Rivalry, Ideology, and Policymaking in the Early Republic.” South Carolina Historical Magazine 105(3)(July 2004): 56-83.