Education

M.A., History, University of Virginia
B.A., History, with Departmental Honors, Oakland University, summa cum laude

Biography

Ethan is a fourth-year doctoral candidate interested in early U.S. politics, diplomacy, information, and the early American state. He is from southeast Michigan and served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army before pursuing an academic career.

Publications

”Espionage during the American Revolution,” Encyclopedia Virginia, 2025 (forthcoming).

"Thomas Jefferson's Information War and the Early American State in Europe, 1784-1793," Journal of the Early Republic (conditionally accepted, forthcoming).

Research

(Dissertation in progress): "The Visible State: U.S. Diplomatic Agents and Information in Europe and the Federal Territories, 1789-1800"

Awards and Honors

Lapidus–Omohundro Institute Fellowship for Graduate Research in Early American Print Culture, 2025

Age of Jefferson Fellow, Jefferson Scholars Foundation, UVA, 2025

Batten and First Union Domestic Fellow, International Center for Jefferson Studies, 2024-25

Andrew W. Mellon Fellow, Massachusetts Historical Society, 2024-25

Summer Research Grant, Corcoran Department of History, UVA, 2024

Albert Gallatin Graduate Research Fellow, UVA, 2024-25

Junior Fellow, Society of Fellows, UVA, 2023-24

Courses Taught

HIST 2212: Maps in World History (Graduate Teaching Assistant under S. Max Edelson, Fall 2023).

HIUS 2051: War and the Making of America to 1900 (Graduate Teaching Assistant under Elizabeth Varon, Spring 2023).

HIUS 2001: American History to 1865 (Graduate Teaching Assistant under Alan Taylor, Fall 2022).