Welcome to my website! I am an early modern historian who earned his PhD from the University of Leicester (UK). I specialize in the relationship between theology and warfare, and my research also focuses on identity, race, slavery, law and how the past is remembered.

After graduation I worked as a researcher on several projects: “Remembering the Reformation” project at the University of Cambridge, the “Wilberforce Diaries” at the University of Leicester, and the “Protestant Political Thought” project based at Oxford. In 2021, I was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. I am part of the executive committee for the International Network for Interreligious Research and Education (INIRE).

I formerly taught early modern history (University of Leicester) and religion, conflict and peacebuilding at (Quinnipiac University, USA). I am currently Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Fairfield University (USA). 

I am the author or editor of five books, including God, Religious Extremism and Violence (Cambridge University Press, 2024), Godly Violence in the Puritan Atlantic World, 1636–76 (Boydell & Brewer, 2024) and A Global Sourcebook in Protestant Political Thought, 1517–1660 (Routledge, 2024). I also edited several journal collections related to religion, politics and conflict. My writings have appeared in outlets like the Journal of Religion and Violence, The Review of Faith and International Affairs, The Conversation and The Washington Post.

Works-in-progress include volume 2 of A Global Sourcebook in Protestant Political Thought which will cover 1660 to roughly 1850.