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I am broadly interested in wartime, global history, and the politics of race and citizenship in the early twentieth-century United States.

My book manuscript, The Great Scare: The First World War and the Decade That Made Modern America, 1914-1924, is currently under review with Cambridge University Press. The work positions White fear on the American home front at the intersection of multiple global dynamics, including Mexican and Indian revolutionary movements, Germany’s espionage program, Japan’s imperial ambitions, Pan-Africanism, and transnational radicalism.

More specifically, The Great Scare argues that the First World War and its aftermath transformed white supremacy by placing racially unequal understandings of loyalty at the heart of American citizenship. Encouraged by rapidly spreading conspiracy theories, many White Americans came to believe that minority groups shared an inherent propensity to subversion and that some were collaborating with foreign interests against America’s war effort. Ultimately, these racial rumors not only renewed long-running arguments that citizenship should remain a prerogative of Whiteness, but also fueled a powerful surge of racial violence, federal surveillance, immigration restriction, and white nationalist organizational activity. This work thus demonstrates how the essentialization of racial minorities as prone to disloyalty articulated a largely novel form of white supremacy, reconstituting its cultural, political, and legal foundations modern America.

I serve as co-editor, along with Bruno Cabanes, of Globalizing the History of the World Wars (forthcoming 2026, Cambridge University Press), an edited volume that explores the promises and limits of applying the global turn to the twentieth century’s two signature armed conflicts. The work pays close attention to the following themes: the broad diffusion of models of total war; the development of international law and transnational humanitarianism; colonial and racial encounters; and competing and contested processes of memory-making. I have also contributed a chapter entitled “The Rising Tide of Color: Race, Global War, and the Remaking of American White Supremacy, 1915-1924.”

My peer-reviewed work has appeared in Modern American History, The Journal of American Ethnic History, and 20 & 21: Revue d’histoire, a French journal of modern history. Shorter essays have been published in TIME magazine and the Washington Post. I have presented portions of my research in the U.S. and abroad, including at the meetings of the International Research Center of the Historial de la Grande Guerre (Europe’s leading institution for the study of the First World War), the American Historical Association, the Society for Military History, and the International Society for First World War Studies, among others.