Publications

Books

• Immigrant and Entrepreneur: The Atlantic World of Caspar Wistar, 1650-1750 (University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008).

Articles/Essays

• With Zachary Stoltzfus, “Settlers and Refugees: Reframing the ‘Hochstetler Massacre’ of 1757.” Journal of Mennonite Studies 41 (2023), 1-20.

   

• “Information Brokers and Mediators:  The Role of Diplomats in the Migrations of German-speaking People, 1709-1711.”  In A Peculiar Mixture:  German-Language Cultures and Identities in Eighteenth-Century North America.  Jan Stievermann and Oliver Scheiding, eds.  University Park, Pa.:  The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013, 43-57.

• “Migration and Loss of Spiritual Community:  The Case of Daniel Falckner and Anna Maria Schuchart.”  In Enduring Loss in Early Modern Germany.  Lynne Tatlock, ed.  Leiden:  Brill, 2010, 369-95.

• “Dissenting Religious Communication Networks and Migration, 1660-1710.”  In Soundings in Atlantic History: Latent Structures and Intellectual Currents, 1500-1825, Bernard Bailyn, ed.  Cambridge, Ma.:  Harvard University Press, 2009, 210-236.
• "Searching for Prosperity: German Migration to the British American Colonies, 1688-1780," in The Atlantic World: Studies in Migration, Imagination and Slavery, Prentice Hall, 2005.
• "Bridging the Gap: Cultural Mediators and the Structure of Transatlantic Communication," in Atlantic Communications: The Media in American and German History from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century, Oxford: Berg Publishers, 2004.
• "Smuggling Goods or Moving Households The Legal Status of German-speaking Immigrants in the First British Empire," in Meschen zwischen zwei Welten: Auswanderung, Ansiedlung, Akkulturation, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2002, 9-23.
• With Klaus Irmscher, "Die Wanderungsbewegungen der Glasmacher Wenzel aus Gründau-Breitenborn im Deutschen Südwesten, Zweite Teil," Genealogie, 26, 2002, 301-315; 350-357.
• "Caspar Wistar: German-American Entrepreneur and Cultural Broker," in The Human Tradition in America from the Colonial Era to Reconstruction, Scholarly Resources, 2001.
• "From the Rhine Valley to the Delaware Valley: The Eighteenth-Century Transatlantic Trade Channels of Caspar Wistar," in In Search of Peace and Prosperity: New Settlements in Eighteenth-Century Europe and America, Penn State University Press, 2000, 172-188.
• With Klaus Irmscher, "Die Wanderungsbewegungen der Glasmacher Wenzel aus Gründau-Breitenborn im Deutschen Südwesten, Zweite Teil," Genealogie, 9/10, 1998, 274-296.
• "Distributing Aid to Believers in Need: The Religious Foundations of Transatlantic Migration." Pennsylvania History, Special Supplemental Issue, 64, 1997, 73-87.
• "Peterstal and Wistarburg: The Transfer and Adaptation of Business Strategies in Eighteen-Century American Glassmaking," Business and Economic History, 26, 1997, 343-353.

Awards

Research:

• National Historic Publication and Records Commission, Major Collaborative Archive Initiative Grant, “The PRINT Portal: Constructing a Network of Publicly Accessible Crowdsourced Correspondence.” Aug. 1, 2023-July 31, 2026. 
• Fellowship, Center for the History and Heritage of Protestantism, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands. June 2023.
• Snowden Fellowship, Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies, Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, PA. Sept.- Dec., 2021.
• Visiting Professorship, International Training and Research Group: “Diversity:  Mediating Difference in Transcultural Spaces,” Trier University, Trier Germany. June-July, 2018.
• Lapidus Digital Collections Fellowship, Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture – Collaboration with Historical Society of Pennsylvania to digitize Pemberton Family Papers. June-July, 2018.
• Pauley Travel Award, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL – Conduct research in Germany and Switzerland. July 2016.
• Pauley Travel Award, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL – Conduct research in London. June, 2014.
• NEH Postdoctoral Fellowship, The Library Company of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, 2006
• Senior Scholar, Lecture/Research Fulbright Grant, John F. Kennedy Institute, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 2003-2004.
• Fellowship, Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 1997-1998.
• Scholars-in-Residence Award, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Harrisburg, PA, 1997.
• In-House Research Grant, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, 1996.
• Summer Research Fellowship, Winterthur Museum, Winterthur, DE, 1995.

Public History:

• Viva Florida! Florida Wildflower Foundation, Public History Center, 2014.
• Florida Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, General Program Support Grant, Public History Center, 2014.
• UCF Tech Fee Grant, Infrastructure and Student Facing Technology, Public History Center, 2014.
• Changing America, NEH/American LIbrary Association/Smithsonian Institute, Exhibit and Programming Grant, 2013.
• LIFE @ UCF, History in a Box, Public History Center, 2013.
• Created Equal: America's Civil Rights Struggle, NEH/Gilder Lehrman Institute for American History, Community Programming Grant, 2013.
• LIFE @ UCF, Archival Supplies, Public History Center, 2012.
• Museum Assessment Program, Collections Stewardship, American Alliance of Museums/Institute for Museum and Library Services, 20121.
• CAH Research Incentive and Development Grant, Co-PI w/ Scot French, "Publicly Engaged History for the Digital Age," UCF, 2011.
• CAH Interdisciplinary Research Grant, "Home Movie Day," Co-PI w/ Stephen Schlow and Laila Miletic-Vejzovic, UCF, 2008.

Teaching:

• Teaching Incentive Program Award, UCF, 2006.
• Summer Diversity Faculty Institute, Brown v. Board of Education, UCF, 2003.
• Summer International Faculty Institute, Internationalizing the Curriculum, UCF, 2001.
• Teaching Incentive Program Award, UCF, 2000.
• Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award, UCF, 2000.
• Dean's Initiative Award, Technology Across the Curriculum, CAH, UCF, 1996.

Courses

• Fall 2025
• Spring 2026