My Books

I have published four books: The Dutch-Munsee Encounter in America: The Struggle for Sovereignty in the Hudson Valley, Bacon’s Rebellion, 1676-1677: Race, Class, and Frontier Conflict in Colonial Virginia, co-authored with Verdis LeVar Robinson, and Migrations and Borders in the United States: Discourses, Representations, Imaginary Contexts and Permeable Borders: History, Theory, Policy, and Practice in the United States, both co-edited with Susanne Berthier-Foglar.

My current focus is a book-length study of the history of wampum, strings, and belts of beads crafted from marine shells and used ceremonially by the Native people of northeastern North America.