Island Refuge: Exiles and Refugees in Britain from Constantine to Climate Change, an account of the long history of asylum in Britain, from the Romans to the present day.
Plague in the City of Gold: Pestilence, Murder and the Twilight of the British Raj, which explores the history of the third plague pandemic in the British Empire and demonstrates how British plague policies helped to shape a more radical form of Indian nationalism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
Courses Taught
Western Civilization to 1648
Honors Western Civilization from 1648
British Empire
The Age of Exploration and Conquest
The Age of Reason
Capstone Research Seminar: Exploration and Empire
Graduate Theory and Methods
Graduate Seminar on European Imperialism
Awards and Honors
Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military History, Finalist (2020)
New York Times Editor’s Choice (2020)
Financial Times Top 10 Books of the Year (2019)
Hans Gatzke Prize, Yale University (2014)
MacMillan Center Dissertation Research Grant (2011)
Warnock Fellowship (2011)
Miller Endowed Fellowship in History (2008-9)
Selected Publications
Island Refuge: Exiles and Refugees in Britain from Constantine to Climate Change (forthcoming, William Collins)
“‘Love Ye Therefore the Strangers:’ Foreign Residents and the Criminal Law in Early Modern England, 1670-1750,” Continuity and Change 29 (Dec. 2014): 349-71.
“From Treason to Homicide: Changing Conceptions of Petty Treason in Early Modern England,” The Journal of Legal History 34 (April 2013): 31-49.