EDUCATION:
Yale University, New Haven, CT, MA and Ph.D in History, 1994
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, BA in History, 1987
EMPLOYMENT
Associate Professor of History, University of San Diego,
1995-present; Department Chair, 2004-09
Program Director, Interdisciplinary Humanities, University of San Diego, 2008-present
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS: BRITISH HISTORY
“Love, Friendship, and Power: Queen Mary II’s Letters to Frances Apsley,” The Journal of British Studies 47, no. 3 (July 2008): 505-527.
"A Letter from Carolina, 1688: French Huguenots in the New World," William and Mary Quarterly 3rd. ser., 64 (April 2007): 377-394
Beaufort: The Duke and His Duchess, 1657-1715 (Yale University Press, 2001). Reviews: Sunday Times, Daily Mail, Sunday Telegraph, Literary Review, H-Albion, Times Literary Supplement, Albion, Parliamentary History, History
Articles on the first Duke of Beaufort, Sir Trevor Williams and John Arnold for The New Dictionary of National Biography, ed., H. C. G. Matthew (Oxford University Press, 2001)
Schaum's Quick Guide to Writing Great Essays (McGraw Hill, 1998)
"The Duke of Beaufort's Tory Progress through Wales,
1684," The Welsh History Review 18/4 (1997): 592-620
"The Wentwood Forest Riot: Property Rights and
Political Culture in Restoration England," in Political Culture and
Cultural Politics in Early Modern England, eds. Susan Amussen and Mark A.
Kishlansky (Manchester University Press, 1995), pp. 112-132.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS: CALIFORNIA HISTORY
"The Bishop's School, 1909-2009," The Journal of San Diego History 54, no. 4 (2008): 235-67.
"A National City Investor: Theron Parsons (1805-1893)," The Journal of San Diego History 54, no. 3 (2008): 184-201.
“ZLAC Rowing Club, 1892-2007,” The Journal of San Diego History 53, no. 3 (2007): 89-116.
“Two Days in San Francisco—1906” The Journal of San Diego History 51, nos. 1-2 (2005): 1-20.
RECENT PAPERS
"Princess Mary's Love Letters to Her 'Dear, Cruel, Loved, Blessed Husband' Aurelia: A Seventeenth-Century Romance," UCLA European Colloquium, October 2005.
"Going Dutch": Delftware and Tulips in the Life of Mary, Princess of Orange," North American Conference on British Studies, Denver 2005.
" 'A Princess Eminent for Piety': Queen Mary II and Court Culture in the 1690s," Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies, Berkeley, 2004
"William's Mary: Representations of an English Queen," International Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, 2003.
AWARDS AND GRANTS
The Davies Award for Teaching Excellence, University of San
Diego, 2005
Project-Based University Professorship, University of San
Diego, 2004-2005
NEH Summer Institute, "Space and Society in the
Past," Pennsylvania State University, summer 2002
Winterthur Research Fellowship, 2000-2001
NEH Summer Institute on "Society and Religion in Early
Modern England," Claremont Graduate School, summer 1996
Faculty Research Grants, University of San Diego, 1996-2003
Andrew W. Mellon Dissertation Fellowship, 1992-93
Mellon Foundation Research Fellowship, 1991-92
Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, 1988-92
Yale University Graduate Fellowship, 1987-88
Sarah and Mendel Cooperman Fellowship, 1984-87
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Co-Editor, The Journal
of San Diego History, 2005-present
Secretary, Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies, 2004-06
MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
American Historical Association
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS)
Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture
(OIEACH)
North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS)
Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies (PCCBS)
Western Historical Association
Phi Alpha Theta
CLUBS
ZLAC Rowing Club, Ltd., San Diego, CA
The Elizabethan Club and Mory's, Yale University