I am a historian of United States history. My research focuses on aspects of labor, social class, and power, primarily during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (1870-1920). I teach courses on labor history, the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, US immigration history, and US foreign relations.

Book

Death and Dying in the Working Class, 1865-1920. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2015.

Available from the University of Illinois Press.

Peer-Reviewed Articles

• “Death and Dying in the Working Class.” In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History. Oxford University Press, 2014. Article published December 22, 2021. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199329175.013.788.
• “Dying with Their Boots On: Illinois Miners and the Pursuit of a Good Death, 1861-1909,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 113, no. 2 (Summer 2020): 7-37.

Recent Book Reviews

• Review of Lauren Braun-Strumfels, Partners in Gatekeeping: How Italy Shaped U.S. Immigration Policy Over Ten Pivotal Years, 1891-1901 in Journal of Southern History. Forthcoming.
• Review of Michael C. Pierce and Calvin White, Jr., Race, Labor, and Violence in the Delta: Essays to Mark the Centennial of the Elaine Massacre in Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies 54, no. 1 (April 2023): 68-69.
• Review of Jennifer E. Brooks, Resident Strangers: Immigrant Laborers in New South Alabama in Italian American Review  13, no. 2 (2023): 200-203.
• Review of James P. Kramer, Havoc and Reform: Workplace Disasters in Modern America in Journal of Arizona History 63, no. 1 (Spring 2022): 90-92. 
• Review of Nate Holdren, Injury Impoverished: Workplace Accidents, Capitalism, and Law in the Progressive Era in Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 20, no. 3 (July 2021): 469-470.