Courses I Teach at RIT

• Hands-on History


• America's National Parks


• Monuments and Memory


• American Social and Intellectual History


• Learning From Las Vegas


• History of the American West


• Writing the West (honors) -- co-taught with Dr. Barbara Heifferon (English)


• Modern America

Selected Publications

• "Learning to See: Visual Tools in American Mining Engineering, 1860-1920." Ph.D. Dissertation, The Johns Hopkins University, 2007.


• "'Without Doubt the Most Accurate': Underground Surveying and the Development of Mining Engineering in the Pennsylvania Anthracite Region," Pennsylvania Legacies 9, no. 2 (Nov. 2009): 20-25.


• "A Grand Galaxy of Talent: Lawyers, Experts, and Models in a Tonopah Mining Lawsuit, 1914-1918," in Boomtown History II: Celebration of Nye County Boomtowns ed. by Jean Johnson (Amargosa, NV: Nevada Boomtown History Event, 2007), 87-119.


• "Miner, Minstrel, Memory: Or, Why the Smithsonian Has Bill Keating's Pants," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 131, no. 1 (Jan. 2007): 81-102.


• "Mapping Underground Drifton: The Evolution of Anthracite Mine Maps," Canal History and Technology Proceedings 25 (2006): 79-96.


• From Neglected Space to Protected Place: An Administrative History of Mojave National Preserve. Los Angeles: GPO, March 2003. Great Basin CESU Cooperative Agreement H8R0701001.


• "Labor Strife in the Desert: the Union Pacific Railroad Shopmen's Strike of 1922 in Las Vegas," Nevada Historical Society Quarterly 44, no. 4 (2001): 313-332.

Professional Society Memberships

• Organization of American Historians


• Society for the History of Technology


• National Council on Public History


• Mining History Association

Please feel free to contact me.