He received his doctorate from Harvard University in 2008 and is the author of The Indian Great Awakening: Religion and the Shaping of Native Cultures in Early America (2012) and the co-author of Decoding Roger Williams: The Lost Essay of Rhode Island's Founding Father (2014), with J. Stanley Lemons and Lucas Mason-Brown. He is working on a book-length project on Indian and African enslavement in colonial New England and the English Atlantic.