Biography

I was born in Texas, lived for a while in the Deep South, finally settled in Oklahoma, and graduated from Oklahoma State University with degrees in mathematics and history. At Cambridge I studied early modern history, with an emphasis on religion. My PhD recreated puritan religious practice and religious politics during Britain's mid-17th-century "Puritan Revolution". Since my doctorate I have worked at the universities of St Andrews, Cambridge, and East Anglia. I was an assistant editor on "The minutes and papers of the Westminster assembly, 1643-52" (OUP, 2012), and I am currently co-editor of volume 3 of "The letters and speeches of Oliver Cromwell" (OUP, forthcoming, 2015). I am currently preparing a monograph on 'The congregational experiment during the puritan revolution'.