Public Scholarship
Historical Method Man
Educational video work that translates historical method for a broader audience.
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Published work spanning historical method, colonial institutions, postcolonial Africa, and public-facing scholarship.
My writing moves between academic venues and public formats. Peer-reviewed work tends toward close argumentation and archival grounding. Public writing — including the Historical Method Man channel — aims to make historical thinking legible to an audience that did not choose to study it.
Publications
Published papers
Five articles in peer-reviewed history journals, each open access.
- American West2023
Photography, Identity, Power: William Henry Jackson and the American Colonial Gaze
Photographs spanning William Henry Jackson’s long career tell the story of settler colonialism — the racial ideologies that drove the dispossession of American Indian nations, and the closing of the frontier.
History Matters: An Undergraduate Journal of Historical ResearchVol. 20 · pp. 39–96 · 2023
- Vietnam2023
Postcolonial Museums and National Identity in Vietnam
After North and South merged, the unified Vietnamese state used museums and monuments to reimagine its identity — an official history built on anti-colonialism, shared trauma, and socialist solidarity.
The Gettysburg Historical JournalVol. 22, No. 1 · pp. 105–123 · 2023
- Japan2023
Japanese Peace and Soft Power: Osaka Expo ’70 in the Cold War’s Space Race
Barred from offensive force by Article 9, Japan used Osaka Expo ’70 and its new space programme to show power by non-military means — a World’s Fair as a rebranding of the nation as a peaceful internationalist.
Colorado Journal of Asian StudiesVol. 10, No. 1 · pp. 129–141 · 2023
- South Africa2023
The Sharpeville Massacre, Violence, and the Struggles of the African National Congress, 1960–1990
The ANC’s own internal writings show the Sharpeville Massacre of 21 March 1960 as the turning point at which the Congress changed its attitude towards violence as a means of resistance.
Armstrong Undergraduate Journal of HistoryVol. 13, No. 1 · pp. 62–75 · 2023
- Historical method2022
Lenses, Focus, and Fluidity: Lessons from Medieval Queer History
On method: what the study of medieval queer history teaches about reading past lives.
The Gettysburg Historical JournalVol. 21, No. 1 · pp. 6–19 · 2022
Presentations
Conference talks & presentations
Talks delivered at academic conferences and graduate research events.
- H-Grad Lightning Talks, H-Net Occidentalism & Selfhood: Nawal El Saadawi's Travels in Europe (2023)
- NC State Graduate History Conference How Highways Decided Morocco's Victory in the Western Sahara Conflict (2026)
Papers & Decks
Research papers and slide decks
Downloadable PDFs from the active research projects. Full list on the Works page.
Public Scholarship
Public-facing writing and media
Writing and video work designed to reach audiences beyond the seminar room.
Research
Selected presentations
Conference, workshop, and digital-history presentation work spanning Moroccan history, tutoring pedagogy, and postcolonial African airlines.
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Selected publications
Journal articles and essays in venues including History Matters, Gettysburg Historical Journal, and the Armstrong Undergraduate Journal of History.
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Travel, teaching & scholarship dispatches
Public writing from the field, the classroom, and the research desk — on Substack since 2023.
- Promoting a Project — 2025 Postcolonial African Airlines: History from Colonies to Carriers
- Teaching Modern United States History — 2024 Reflections Before Our Big Event
- Online Conference Presentation Tomorrow — 2023 Occidentalism & Selfhood: Nawal El Saadawi's Travels in Europe
- Projects Old and New — 2023 Arabic Travel Literature and PhD Applications
- Marrakech & Ben Guerir — 2023 Busy but Good
- Fes & Ifrane Weekend, Part Two — 2023 Ifrane and the Mohammed VI Library Archive
- Fes & Ifrane Weekend — 2023 Part One: Fes
- Settling In — 2023 Morocco Week One
- New Friends — 2023 The Sultanate of Oman: Week II
- Transition — 2023 Pennsylvania to Oman
- Full archive on Substack All dispatches — Morocco, Oman, teaching, research, and public scholarship writing since 2023.
Archive
Full publication record
The full trail of published and presented work.
- Academia.edu profile Research profile with all articles, conference presentations, and public-facing work.
- Historical Method Man — YouTube Public scholarship channel with 1,700+ subscribers and 218,000+ views on historical method, research, and language learning.
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