* Director of the School of Education
* Author of four books on land-grant colleges and the history of American higher education
* Editor of the book series Perspectives on the History of Higher Education
Experience
2018–present
Associate professor, West Virginia University
2019–present
Chairperson / Director, West Virginia University
Education
2011
Pennsylvania State University, Ph.D. in Higher Education
2004
Vanderbilt University, M.A. in Higher Education
2002
Bucknell University, B.A. Economics and Political Sciences
Publications
2021
Change and Continuity in American Colleges and Universities: Lessons from Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Innovations, Routledge
2019
Land-Grant Colleges and Popular Revolt: The Origins of the Morrill Act and the Reform of Higher Education, Cornell University Press
2017
American Higher Education in the Postwar Era, 1945-1970, Routledge
2013
The Land Grant Colleges and the Reshaping of American Higher Education, Transaction Press