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US Civil War era; scholarship of teaching and learning in history; history research methods. 

Hayward is Home: Understanding and Belonging in the Heart of the Bay (with lead authors Melissa Grijalva-Foreman and Margaret Balk), (2024).

Preface to Bonnie L. Ford, “Women, Marriage, and Divorce in California, 1849-1872,” California Legal History, vol. 16 (2021), 1-5.

“Beyond Big Data: Teaching Introductory U.S. History in the Age of Student Success,” lead author (with Katherine Chilton, Christopher Endy, Michael Henderson, Brad A.  Jones, and Ji Y. Son), Journal of American History, vol. 106, n. 4 (March 2020), 989-1011.

Bonds of Union:  Religion, Race, and Politics in a Civil War Borderland (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press), 2016.

“Flipping the Narrative on MOOCs in the Nation’s Largest University System” (with Christopher Endy), Process: a blog for American history, January 26, 2016,

“Black Spiritual Defiance and the Politics of Slavery in Antebellum Louisville,” Journal of Southern History, vol. 78, n. 1 (February 2012), 69-106. 

Chair and panelist, “General Education in an AI-Empowered University: Humanities Faculty at the CSU Respond to ChatGPT,” American Association of Colleges & Universities Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., January 2026.

Chair and panelist, “Hayward is Home: Understanding and Belonging in the Heart of the Bay,” American Historical Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, January 2024.

Panelist, “Textbooks and Teaching 2020: Teaching the Introductory U.S. History Course in the Age of ‘Student Success,’” Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians, Washington D.C., April 2020 (delivered virtually July 2020).

Chair, “Title V Roundtable: The U.S. Constitution in the ²»Á¼Ñо¿Ëù Classroom,” Rights and Wrongs: A Constitution and Citizenship Day Conference, San Francisco State University, September 2019.

Chair and Participant, “Seeing the Student in ‘Student Success,’: Rethinking the U.S. History Survey Class in the Cal State System,” Culturally Responsive Teaching in the History Classroom, Teaching History Conference, University of California, Los Angeles, May 2019.

Chair and Participant, “Undermining ‘Student Success?’: How US History Surveys Landed on the Chancellor’s Shortlist for ‘Low-Success’ Courses and What 30 CSU Historians Did ²»Á¼Ñо¿Ëù It,” Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians, Sacramento, California, April 2018. 

“Bonds of Union in a Civil War Borderland,” San Francisco Civil War Roundtable, San Francisco, California, May 2017.

“American Institutions Courses:  Sustaining Success,” Teaching Symposium, ²»Á¼Ñо¿Ëù, East Bay, Hayward, California, May 2017.

“Bonds of Union,” The Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, California, April 2017.

²»Á¼Ñо¿Ëù, “Introducing AI Literacy in General Education History Courses for College Success and Civic Participation,” Lead PI, AI Educational Innovations Challenge Grant, 2025-2026

California Humanities Humanities for All Quick Grant, Project Director, “Hayward is Home: Understanding and Belonging in the Heart of the Bay,” 2023

²»Á¼Ñо¿Ëù Chancellor’s Office Course Redesign Sustaining Success Lead Faculty, 2016-2017

Chair, Department of History, 2019 to 2025 (elected to serve two terms)

Chair, Council of Chairs, College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences, 2023-2024

Member, General Education, Overlay, and Code Subcommittee, 2019-2021

Program Coordinator, Single Subject Matter Preparation Program in Social Science, College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences, ²»Á¼Ñо¿Ëù, East Bay, Hayward, California, 2007-2018.

Participant, ²»Á¼Ñо¿Ëù Program in Student Success Analytics, 2018.  

Program Director, University Honors Program, ²»Á¼Ñо¿Ëù, East Bay, Hayward, California, 2013-2017