I'm an historian of Britain and its wider world, and I joined the University of Alabama  in the fall of 2017.

 

To Begin the World Over Again, a global history of the American Revolution, was published in October 2019.  The Conquest of Death, my first book, came out with Yale in June 2017.

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Though my specialty is the social history of the law in the British empire, my broader interests include the history of crime and violence; gender, ethnicity, and immigration in early modern Europe and the Americas; comparative legal history; and the history of institutions, administration, and state formation.