About

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 19th Century American Military History, and specifically on how the United States Army adapted and professionalized between the end of the American Civil War and the turn of the century.

This semester I will be expanding my digital history skills through the completion of this site and the assignments linked here as part of CLIO II. In addition to the interim projects as part of the syllabus I will be working on using digital skills to further my research and scholarship on the post-Civil War professionalization of the Army as part of my final project website.

I will be specifically looking at the developoment of professional military education for the U.S. Army Officer Corps in the latter part of the nineteenth-century. In addition to furthering my own research I will be improving my skills with the following digital tools and methods:

• HTML5
• CSS
• Photoshop