He also teaches the history of American Indians and Colonial Latin America. He received his Ph.D. from the College of William and Mary and is the author of Anglo-Spanish Rivalry in Colonial South-East America, 1650-1725 and the co-editor of and contributor to Recovering the Piedmont Past: Unexplored Moments in Nineteenth-century Upcountry South Carolina History. He is currently serving for one year as the former Faculty Chair.