Our Faculty

Courses I Teach

• HIST1105 - United States History to 1877
• HIST1106 - United States History Since 1877 
• HIST2105 - America Since 1960
• HIST2128 - Immigrants in the American Experience
• HIST2205 - Women in American History
• HIST3107 - A History of Boston
• HIST3111 - United States and Global Issues

Publications + Presentations

Publications

• "Keeping the faithful: In Boston, as elsewhere in the United States, Hispanic immigrants arrive Catholic; they don't necessarily remain so." Boston College Magazine, Summer 2009.
• "People of Color, People of Faith: 200 Years of Diversity in the Archdiocese of Boston" in Two Centuries of Faith: the Influence of Catholicism on Boston 1808-2008, Thomas H. O'Connor, editor, New York: The Crossroads Publishing Company, May 2009.
• "Black and Irish Relations in Nineteenth Century Boston: The Interesting Case of Lawyer Robert Morris," Historical Journal of Massachusetts, Vol. 37 (1), Spring 2009: 65-85.
• "Review of Stephen Puleo, The Boston Italians: A Story of Pride, Perseverance, and Paisani From the Years of the Great Immigration to the Present Day," The New England Quarterly March 2008.
• "Review of Stephen Prothero, American Jesus: How the Son of God Became a National Icon," The Journal of Popular Culture November 2005.
• "Growing Together: Blacks and the Catholic Church in Boston," The Historian, June 2004.
• "The Failure of Catholic Interacialism in Boston before Busing," Boston Histories: Essays in Honor of Thomas H. O'Connor, James O'Toole and David Quigley editors, Northeastern University Press, December 2003.
• "Review of James M. O"Toole, Passing for White: Race, Religion, and the Healy Family, 1820-1920," The Pilot, August 16, 2002.
• "Review of Christopher Owen Lynch, Selling Catholicism: Bishop Sheen and the Power of Television," New England Historical Association Newsletter Fall 1999.
• "Review of Albert J. von Frank, The Trials of Anthony Burns: Freedom and Slavery in Emerson's Boston," H-Net Book Review (November, 1998).
• "A Parish for the Black Catholics of Boston," Catholic Historical Review January 1997, 44-68.
• "Review of Alexander von Hoffman, Local Attachments: The Making of an American Urban Neighborhood, 1850 to 1920," Technology and Culture July 1996.

Papers Presented and Panel Discussions

• "Catholic Interracial Activity in Boston Before Busing," New England Historical Association Spring Conference, Tufts University (April 2000).
• "The Significance of Race in American History; An Historical Perspective," Interdisciplinary Perspective on Race in U.S. Society, Campus Week of Dialogue on Race, Emmanuel College (October, 1999).
• "Blacks and the Founding of the Catholic Church in Boston," Second Annual Boston-Area Graduate History Symposium, Boston, MA (March 1996).

Research Focus

I am currently researching the life of Charles Lenox Remond, African-American abolitionist from Massachusetts who attended the World Anti-Slavery Conference in London in 1840.