Some of my scholarship is in print and much more is forthcoming.  I started my history career studying the environmental history of the central plains and published in Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains, and in the Spring, 2005 issue of Journal of the West.  (Notice that the award-winning Kansas History is one of the few journals that has many of their published articles available for free online!  That's efficient use of your tax dollars Kansans!)  My wife, Kathleen Hoff-Harvey and I have a plan to write a book on the environmental history of the central flyway of North America, we just need some time off to do a research and photography tour of the region.  Another article on Cheyenne Bottoms Wildlife Area is coming out in the Fall Issue of Kansas History Journal.

I moved into the study of colonial and early American theater in my doctoral program at the University of Kansas.  I am particularly interested in the different meanings of the performances of Euro-Americans, Native Americans, and African Americans during this period.  Some of this work is just beginning to be published, with a book review article in June of 2008 in Reviews in American History and in volume 38 (2009) of Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture.  I do present small chunks of this work at history conferences about once a year, particularly the SHEAR conference (Society for Historians of the Early American Republic), which I consider my home group.  I recently contracted to write a book for Pickering and Chatto Publishers of London entitled, The Theater of Empire: Frontier Performances in North America, 1760-1860, which should be out in late 2010.

For a sampling of what you'll get at one of my shows, see my School Program page.  Check back because this website is definitely a work in progress.