He earned his Ph.D. from Indiana University in 2013. His articles have been published in the Journal of Social History and the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. His op-eds have appeared in publications such as the Washington Post, the Salt Lake Tribune, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Seattle Times, and the Chicago Sun-Times. He also serves as Membership Secretary for the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. He is currently completing an article on the history of experience and beginning research on a new book project on alternate realities in American culture.