I’m an early American historian at Mississippi State University whose work has focused primarily on eighteenth-century Protestant Irish (Scots Irish) immigrants to Pennsylvania and their lives in Philadelphia, various interior towns, and on the frontier. I also have a strong interest in material culture and in telling the stories of eighteenth-century Irish American women, subjects that remained under-studied in the field. I’ve written two books: The Scots-Irish of Early Pennsylvania: A Varied People (2018) and A Town In-Between: Carlisle, Pennsylvania and the early Mid-Atlantic Interior (2010). I’ve also written articles or chapters on the material culture of the Paxton Boys and on early Irish American family life & labor for the new Routledge history of Irish America. Since 2021, I have co-edited the journal, Early American Studies.