Enforcing the Fugitive Slave Law

(Ongoing)

My current research explores the enforcement of the controversial Fugitive Slave Law, unearthing new insights about the antebellum federal government’s efforts to implement the statute.

The Worst of a Villainous Tribe: Richard McAllister and the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850

(House Divided Project, 2020)

This peer-reviewed e-book (House Divided Project, 2020) explores the forgotten career of Richard McAllister, a U.S. commissioner tasked with enforcing the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law.

Clashing Symbols in Timbuktu

Peace Review 30:4 (December 2018); republished as chapter in Religion in War and Peace in Africa (Routledge, 2020)