Education
- Ph.D. in History from Florida State University (2001)
Research Interests
Florida History, Native American History, Early American Borderlands, SoTL
Recent Research Activities
“Remembering the ‘Dade Massacre’: Regional Memory, Settler Colonialism, and Native American Perspectives” in The Public Historian 45, no.2 (May 2023): 108-133.
"Whose Outlaws? Reevaluating the Seminole 'Indian Scare of 1849'" in Native South, 15 (2022): 1-29.
“Evaluating the "Professionalizing History Majors" Course: Historical Knowledge and Co-Curricular Activities” in The History Teacher 54, no.1 (November 2020): 9-37.
“Professionalizing History Majors”: A New Approach to Broadening the Perspectives of Undergraduates on Their Postgraduation Worlds” in Journal of American History 104.4 (March 2018)
“Promise and Disillusionment in the Shape of a Woman: Conquistadors in Florida and New France, A Comparative Perspective” in Journal of Early American History 7.3 (November 2017)
Publications
Books
- Native America: A State-by-State Historical Encyclopedia (Greenwood Press, 2012)
- Constructing Floridians: Natives and Europeans in the Colonial Floridas, 1513-1783 (University Press of Florida, 2006)
Articles/Essays
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“Promise and Disillusionment in the Shape of a Woman:
Conquistadors in Florida and New France, A Comparative Perspective” in Journal of Early American History 7.3 (November
2017)
- "Gendering the Borderlands: Conquistadors, Women, and Colonialism in Sixteenth-Century Florida," Sixteenth Century Journal XLIII/1 (Spring 2012): 47-69.
Awards
Received the Florida Book Awards - "Silver Medal" - Nonfiction Category for Constructing Floridians: Natives and Europeans in the Colonial Floridas, 1513-1783 (2007)
Received the Florida Historical Society's - "Harry T. and Harriette V. Moore Award" for Constructing Floridians: Natives and Europeans in the Colonial Floridas, 1513-1783 (2007)
Courses
| Course # | Course | Title | Mode | Days/Times | Syllabus |
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| 11521 | AMH2010 | U.S. History: 1492-1877 | Mixed Mode (M) | Th 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM | Unavailable |
| 12802 | AMH2020 | U.S. History: 1877-present | Mixed Mode (M) | Th 1:30 PM - 2:45 PM | Unavailable |
| 19628 | AMH3580 | Indig North America 1492-1783 | In Person (P) | Tu,Th 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM | Unavailable |
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