His first book, King, Commonwealth, and the People’s Love: Forging the Bonds of Polity in Renaissance Virginia (forthcoming from University of North Carolina Press), explores the relationship between providentialism and legal conceptions of sovereignty in justifying Tudor and Stuart English colonization in America and in shaping the nature of that enterprise. For his next project, he is studying the reception of the Hobbesian ideal of the sovereign state in late seventeenth and eighteenth century British America. For more information see here