Writing:

Scholarly Publications:

Book Review: Richard H. Bell, The American Revolution and the Fate of the World, Maryland Historical Magazine, forthcoming

“Kahnawake-French Diplomacy and the Multiple Meanings of the American Revolutionary War in the Northeast,” The New England Quarterly: Special Issue: Under-Represented Voices of the American Revolution, vol. 99, no. 1 (March 2026)

Book Review: Richard H. Tomczak, Workers of War and Empire from New France to British America, 1688–1783, The American Historical Review, vol. 131, no. 1, (March 2026)

“Hilliard d’Auberteuil’s Mis Mac Rea: A Story of the American Revolution in the French Atlantic,” William and Mary Quarterly, vol. 79, no. 4 (October 2022)

Additional Writing:

“Racialization and Dispossession in the Memory of the American Revolution” Uncommon Sense blogpost, Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture, February 1, 2023

 “What Can Jane McCrea Tell Us about the American Revolution Today?” The Saratoga County Compass blogpost, December 1, 2021

select podcasts, videos, and presentations:

"'Her story becomes a way that people in the Northeast can connect to and claim this grander American narrative of westward expansion and of an idea of civilization triumphing over supposed barbarity,' Grindon says." I was interviewed by Serena Jampel for her article on Jane McCrea for Smithsonian
Podcast: Beyond the Legend: Jane McCrea, Indigenous Warriors, and Revolutionary War Narratives with Blake Grindon

“Beyond the Legend: Jane McCrea, Indigenous Warriors, and Revolutionary War Narratives,” Historians and Their Histories podcast (Massachusetts Historical Society), February 16, 2026

“‘One Tory and One Scalp’: Violence on the American Revolution’s Northern Front,” Lunch and Learn Series, Connecticut Museum of History and Culture, March 25, 2025

“The Death of Jane McCrea,” Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Boston, Massachusetts, February 13, 2025

Roundtable: “Challenges in Diversifying the Public History of the American Revolution,” Conference of Organization of American Historians, Chicago, April 3-6, 2025      

“‘Such Badges of Victory’: The Politics of Scalping on the American Revolution’s Northern Front,” The History Seminar, Johns Hopkins University, October 28, 2024

“Vanderlyn’s Jane McCrea: A Neoclassical Heroine for the New Republic?,” Panel: Race, Gender, & Nationhood: Visual & Material Culture in Early America, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, 45th Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, July 18-21, 2024

“John Vanderlyn and the Trans-Atlantic Memory of Jane McCrea, 1780-1804,” Temple Early Atlantic Seminar, Temple University, November 29, 2023

“New France’s Old Allies: Reimagining the Imperial Body Politic After the Seven Years’ War” Panel: Eighteenth-Century Diplomacy, Society for French Historical Studies, 67th Annual Meeting, Charlotte, North Carolina, March 24-26, 2022

“The Mohawk Atlantic in the Age of Revolution: Cultural Brokerage and the Politics of Alliance, 1775-76,” Indigenous Studies Seminar, American Philosophical Society, January 21, 2022