About Me
I am currently a professor at Wilfrid Laurier University (Canada) in the Department of History where I teach business and legal history.
My doctoral work was completed at Harvard University after which I served as the dean of Kirkland House, one of the twelve undergraduate residential communities of the university.
I have also worked in the private sector for IBM in brand management.
My research explores the history of political and moral economy in Britain and its empire. I am now finishing a new book on corruption in early modern Britain that explores how different ideas of corruption - religious, legal, and administrative -- combined to produce greater and greater polarization and political instability.
Current projects include a history of capitalism's moral economy, an investigation into liberal theory and business interests, and the reconstruction of eighteenth-century illicit commerce and political economy.
Grants from Canada's Social Science and Humanities Research Council, Wilfrid Laurier University, Harvard University, Oxford University, and the Huntington Library have supported my research.
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