I am currently a professor of history at Quinsigamond Community College (QCC) in Worcester, Massachusetts, having also concurrently held adjunct lecturer and visiting lecturer of history positions at Clark University and the College of Holy Cross, respectively. Prior to my time at QCC, I was a visiting Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies at Brandeis University. I hold a Master’s degree in history and a doctorate in African & African Diaspora Studies, both from the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee. My research is focused on West African history, especially Gold Coast and Ghanaian history, though I have also researched, written, and published work on Atlantic World and African Diasporan history.

I have also written extensively on National Hockey League history and analytics, first as an editor and site manager at the now-defunct Behind the Net hockey stats blog at Sports Blog Nation, then as a co-founder of Hockey-Graphs.com. My work has been published and/or cited in a wide variety of major publications, including The Hockey News, Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and FiveThirtyEight.com, and I was the editor-in-chief of a season preview magazine for the Winnipeg Jets.

But all of these things pale in comparison to the fact that I drove the Zamboni for five years.