This page is my final project in compliance with the requirements for the CLIO II: Creating History in New Media, part of the History PhD program at George Mason University. It is designed to showcase the progress I've made this semester in working with HTML, CSS, and Photoshop, as well as my more general understanding of visual communication, both graphic design and information architecture for the web. Specifically, this page is intended to represent a modest, reasonably sophisticated website that communicates both the content, drawn from my academic research interests, and my understanding of the principles of web design. The page is built around a selection of content from a research project on the nineteenth century Officers' Lyceums.

I’m currently a first year History PhD student at George Mason University. I did my undergraduate work at the College of William & Mary, and graduated in 2004 with a BA in History.

Since then I’ve spent the last 9 years serving as an Infantry Officer in the United States Army, and following my time at George Mason I will be headed to the United States Military Academy at West Point to serve as an Instructor in their History Department.

My research interests are focused on the Nineteenth-century American Military History, and especially the post-Civil War professionalization of the United States Army. Last semester, during CLIO I, I did a mapping project tracing the movement toward fewer, larger posts as the Indian Wars came to a close. I am also currently working on a project studying the Officers' Lyceum Program instituted in the 1890s. This program was part of a larger movement to create an integrated Officer Education system that was a critical elemenet of the effort to transition the Army from a frontier constabulary to a fully professional Army focused on preparing for the next war.