I’m associate professor of history at Rutgers-Camden, where I teach courses in US history, military and diplomatic history, and historical methods. My research focuses on the intersection of defense contracting, intellectual property, and government secrecy in Great Britain and the United States, as well as the “hegemonic transition” from the Pax Britannica to the Pax Americana. In addition to numerous scholarly articles, I’ve written two books: Analog Superpowers: How Twentieth-Century Technology Theft Built the National-Security State (University of Chicago Press, 2024) and Torpedo: Inventing the Military-Industrial Complex in the United States and Great Britain (Harvard University Press, 2014).

In addition to my historical work, I also write essays and op-eds about politics and academia. That work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Liberties, and American Purpose.

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