Welcome.  I've been the UB Fulbright advisor since 2005.

Currently an associate professor in the Department of History, I earned an MA and a PhD from Rutgers University and a BA from NYU.

Between Rutgers and NYU, I attended the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand on a Fulbright grant. In NZ, I learned to play rugby and cricket, bungy jumped and earned a BA (Hons) degree.

My first book was entitled May The Best Man Win: Sport, Masculinity and Nationalism in Great Britain and the Empire 1880-1935 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004) and grew out of the initial research I began during my Fulbright year in New Zealand.

My current research interests focus on modern Ireland, Great Britain, the Atlantic World, Haiti, imperialism, popular culture, liberation theology & social justice.

I am presently working on a project focusing on Fr. Peter Lemass and the progressive Irish Catholic Church since Vatican II and another which is a general history and reader of liberation theology.

Pictures:

Top: "Portrait of the Advisor as a Young Man" in Milford Sound, South Island, NZ in 1993.

Right: Taking a break from my studies, here I am jumping off Kawarau Bridge in Queenstown.