Associate Professor of History, Rutgers University
‘Electricity, Experiment and Enlightenment in 18th-Century North America’ (Columbia University, 2003); published as A Most Amazing Scene of Wonders: Electricity and Enlightenment in Early America (Harvard University Press, 2006).
Associate Professor of History, University of New South Wales
‘Settler Sovereignty: Jurisdiction and Indigenous People in Georgia and New South Wales, 1788-1836 ’ (Columbia University, 2007); published as Settler Sovereignty: Jurisdiction and Indigenous People in America and Australia, 1788-1836 (Harvard University...
‘Missionaries, Slavery, and Race: The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts in the 18th-Century British Atlantic World ’ (Columbia University, 2005); published as Mastering Christianity: Missionary Anglicanism and Slavery in the...
Senior Lecturer in History, University of Auckland
‘Empire of Extinction: A Natural History of Russian Expansion in the 18th-Century North Pacific’ (Columbia University, 2008); published as Empire of Extinction: Russians and the North Pacific's Strange Beasts of the Sea, 1741-1867 (Oxford University Press...