Before his postdoc at Illinois, he earned a PhD in History at the University of California, Riverside. He has held fellowships and grants from the ACLS, the American Philosophical Society, and the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley. In 2016, the University of Washington Press published his book, Native Students at Work: American Indian Labor and Sherman Institute’s Outing Program, 1900-1945. His articles have appeared in American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Pacific Historical Review, and in edited volumes.