His current book project, “Teaching Britain: Elementary Education, State, and Society, 1846-1902,” argues that Victorian elementary teachers were more than just familiar agents of discipline and control, education and civilization. By following teachers as they nurtured secret romances at training colleges, patrolled the streets after school hours, and spent their summer holidays traveling the empire and wider world, “Teaching Britain” argues that they also acted as crucial cultural brokers and social mediators.