Education

Ph.D. in History, Stony Brook University, 2014

Dissertation: “Prisonland: Environment, Society, and Mass Incarceration on New York’s Northern Frontier, 1845-1999.”

Advisor: Christopher Sellers

Committee: Robert Chase, Connie Chiang, Donna Rilling, and Nancy Tomes

M.A. in History, Binghamton University, 2003

Advisor: Melvyn Dubofsky

Committee: Sarah Elbert, Richard Lindstrom, and Brendan McConville

B.A. in History, Binghamton University, 2001

Professional Appointments

Queensborough Community College / CUNY, Department of History

     Associate Professor, 2023-present

     Assistant Professor, 2016-2023

     Substitute Assistant Professor, 2014-2016

Pratt Institute, Department of Social Science and Cultural Studies

     Visiting Instructor of Sustainability Studies, 2015-2024

Publications

Books

A Prison in the Woods: Environment and Incarceration in New York’s North Country. Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2020.  A volume in the series Environmental History of the Northeast.

Essays

“Prison labor: The case for thanking Adirondack inmates.”  Adirondack Explorer.  Jan. / Feb. 2022, pp. 40-41.

“Prisons for Sale, Histories not Included.”  Edge Effects.  Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, Center for Culture, History, and Environment, University of Wisconsin-Madison.  October 2018.

“Toward an Environmental History of American Prisons.”  Process: A Blog for American History.  Organization of American Historians.  June 2017.

“Up the River and to The Woods.”  New York Archives Magazine.  Vol. 15, No. 3.  Winter 2016, pp. 14-17.

“Reexamining the North Country Prison Industry after Matt and Sweat.”  Undercurrents: News from the Grassroots.  Vol. 2, No. 4.  October / November 2015.

“K-9 Units and the History of Adirondack Prison Escapes.”  Adirondack Peeks.  Vol. 52, No. 2.  Fall 2015, pp. 16-17.

Encyclopedia Entries

“Private Housing,” in Kathleen Brosnan, ed., Encyclopedia of American Environmental History, 4 vols.  New York: Facts on File, 2010.

Reviews

Amy Godine, The Black Woods: Pursuing Racial Justice on the Adirondack Frontier.  Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2023.  Environmental History.  Vol. 31, No. 1.  January 2026: 194-195.

Tracy Perkins, Evolution of a Movement: Forty Years of California Environmental Justice Organizing.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 2022.  H-Net Reviews, September 2024.

Jonathan D. Anzalone, Battles of the North Country: Wilderness Politics and Recreational Development in the Adirondack State Park, 1920-1980.  Boston and Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2018.  New York History, vol. 102, no. 2, Winter 2021-2022, pp. 406-408.

Kimberly Jarvis, From the Mountains to the Sea: Protecting Nature in Postwar New Hampshire.  Boston and Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2020.  H-Net Reviews, July 2021.

Anne E. Parsons, From Asylum to Prison: Deinstitutionalization and the Rise of Mass Incarceration after 1945.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018.  The History Teacher.  Vol. 52, No. 3.  May 2019.  532-533.

Connie Y. Chiang, Nature Behind Barbed Wire: An Environmental History of the Japanese-American Incarceration.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.  Environment and History.  Vol. 25, No. 3.  August 2019.  482-484.

Works in Progress

Rikers Island: An Environmental History.

Awards and Fellowships

Loewenstein-Wiener Research Residency.  American Jewish Archives.  2026. ($5,000)

Larry J. Hackman Research Residency.  New York State Archives.  2026. ($1,565)

CUNY Faculty Research Travel Grant.  CUNY Office of Research.  2026.  ($950)

Queensborough Community College Faculty Conference Travel Grant.  2023-2026, 2017-2020, 2015.  ($500-$1,100)

Professional Staff Congress (PSC) CUNY Research Award.  Traditional B.  Cycle 56.  2025.  ($6,000)

Research Fellowship Leave.  Queensborough Community College / CUNY.  Fall 2025.  (100% salary)

Stefan Bernard Baumrin Award.  CUNY Academy for the Humanities and Sciences.  2024.  ($500)

Conference Travel Grant. Pratt Institute.  Department of Social Science and Cultural Studies.   2024, 2023.  ($1,300-$1,500)

William Stewart Travel Award.  CUNY Academy for the Humanities and Sciences.  2023, 2017.  ($500)

Center for Critical Discard Research.  Research Seed Grant.  Pratt Institute.  2022.  ($1,000)

Programming Grant.  CUNY LGBTQIA+ Consortium.  New York City Council.  2022.  ($40,000)

Feliks Gross Endowment Award for Excellence in Faculty Scholarship.  CUNY Academy for the Humanities and Sciences.  2021.  ($500)

Programming Grant.  CUNY LGBTQIA+ Consortium.  New York City Council.  2021.  ($30,000)

Graduate Student Employees Union Travel and Research Grant.  Stony Brook University.  2007, 2010-2012.  ($1,500)

News Literacy Fellowship.  Stony Brook University.  School of Journalism.  Center for News Literacy.  2009-2014.  (100% graduate student stipend)

Graduate Research Assistantship with Dr. Nancy Tomes.  Stony Brook University.  Department of History.  2009.

Hugh Cleland Award for Innovative Teaching.  Stony Brook University.  Department of History.  2009.  ($500)

Freshmen Learning Communities Curriculum Development Award.  Stony Brook University.  2008.  ($1,000)

Freshmen Learning Communities Teaching Fellowship.  Stony Brook University.  2007-2008.  (full graduate student stipend)

Graduate Research Assistantship with Dr. Chris Sellers.  Stony Brook University.  Department of History.  2007.  (full graduate student stipend)

Teaching Assistantship.  Stony Brook University.  Department of History.  2003-2008.  (full graduate student stipend)

Program in Writing and Rhetoric Teaching Fellowship.  Stony Brook University.  2004-2006.  (full graduate student stipend)

Teaching Assistantship.  Binghamton University.  Department of History. 2001-2003.  (full graduate student stipend)

Conferences and Academic Presentations

Conference Organization

Sports and Politics.  Verso Books.  Brooklyn, New York.  December 2018.

International Conference on War and Imprisonment.  CUNY Graduate Center.  New York, New York.  May 2018.

Dangerous Trade: Industrial Hazards Across a Globalizing World.  Stony Brook University.  Stony Brook, New York.  December 2007.

Panel Organization

American Histories at 250: Scholarship from Community College Classroom.  Organization of American Historians Annual Conference.  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  April 2026.

(Mis)Remembering Places of Injustice.  American Society for Environmental History Annual Meeting.  Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  April 2025.

Teaching Environmental History through a Carceral Lens.  American Society for Environmental History Annual Meeting.  Denver, Colorado.  April 2024.

Unfree Labor and the U.S. Environment.  American Society for Environmental History Annual Meeting.  Boston, Massachusetts.  March 2023.

Racist Environmentalism.  American Society for Environmental History Annual Meeting.  Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.  March 2020.  Conference cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic.

Doing Prison Public History: Examples and Challenges.  National Council on Public History Annual Meeting.  Indianapolis, Indiana.  April 2017.

Prisons and Nature in U.S. History.  Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting.  Milwaukee, Wisconsin.  April 2012.

Hard Times in the Park: Recessions, Depressions, and the Environment.  American Society for Environmental History Annual Meeting.  Phoenix, Arizona.  April 2011.

Panel Chair

(Mis)Remembering Places of Injustice.  American Society for Environmental History Annual Meeting.  Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  April 2025.

Teaching Environmental History through a Carceral Lens.  American Society for Environmental History Annual Meeting.  Denver, Colorado.  April 2024.

Controlling Nature: Environmental Sites of Liberation, Dispossession, and Oppression.  American Society for Environmental History Annual Meeting.  Boston, Massachusetts.  March 2023.

Unfree Labor and the U.S. Environment.  American Society for Environmental History Annual Meeting.  Boston, Massachusetts.  March 2023.

Women and Social Change.  International Conference on War and Social Movements.  CUNY Graduate Center.  New York, New York.  May 2019.

Doing Prison Public History: Examples and Challenges.  National Council on Public History Annual Meeting.  Indianapolis, Indiana.  April 2017.

Postwar Reception of Sexual Violence.  International Conference on War and Sexual Violence.  CUNY Graduate Center.  New York, New York.  April 2016.

The Promise and Perils of Environmental Planning and Development.  American Society for Environmental History Annual Meeting.  Phoenix, Arizona.  April 2011.

Panel Comment

Prison Block.  Panel discussant with Brian Mann (North Country Public Radio / NPR reporter), Aaron Woolf (New York filmmaker, 2014 Congressional candidate), and Nick Ludwick (Iowa prison warden).  Lake Champlain International Film Festival.  Plattsburgh, New York.  November 2015.

Conference Presentations

“Addiction and Agricultural Labor at Rikers Island.”  Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting.  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  April 2026.

“Reclaiming Our Collective Power as Teacher-Scholars Amid Planetary Polycrisis and Escalating Attacks on Academic Freedom.”  American Society for Environmental History Annual Meeting.  Kansas City, Missouri.  March 2026.  Cancelled due to illness.

“The Jail and Its Airport.”  American Society for Environmental History Annual Meeting.  Kansas City, Missouri.  March 2026.  Cancelled due to illness.

“From the Tombs to Rikers Island and Back: Demolition and the Fate of Carceral Histories.”  American Society for Environmental History Annual Meeting.  Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  April 2025.

“Exploitation and Erasure in New York’s Prison System.”  Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting.  Chicago, Illinois.  April 2024.

“LGBTQ Historical Preservation in New York State.”  New York Statewide Preservation Conference.  Rochester, New York.  April 2024.  Cancelled due to family emergency.

“Teaching Carceral Conservation.”  American Society for Environmental History Annual Meeting.  Denver, Colorado.  April 2024.

“Affordable Housing or Historic Site? The Tangled Pasts and Uncertain Future of Prisons in New York’s Adirondack Park.”  Academy of Leisure Sciences Annual Conference.  New Orleans, Louisiana.  January 2024.

“Imprisoned Workers and the Black and Brown Landscape of New York’s Adirondack Park.”  American Society for Environmental History Annual Meeting.  Boston, Massachusetts.  March 2023.

“‘The Dregs of New York’: Racist Environmentalism and Incarceration in Upstate New York, 1981-2009.”  American Society for Environmental History Annual Meeting.  Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.  March 2020.  Conference cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic.

“From Iron to Incarceration: The Legacies of Mining in an Adirondack Prison Town.”  Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting.  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  April 2019.

“Doing Prison History in Prisonland: The New York Experience.”  National Council on Public History Annual Meeting.  Indianapolis, Indiana.  April 2017.

“Eminent Domain, Environmental Politics, and New York’s $1.00 Prison.”  American Society for Environmental History Annual Meeting.  Chicago, Illinois.  March 2017.

“Social Activism, Environmentalism, and the Construction of an Adirondack Prisonland, 1975-1999.”  American Society for Environmental History Annual Meeting.  Washington, D.C.  March 2015.

“Prisons and Nature in New York’s Adirondack Mountains, 1845-1999.”  Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting.  Milwaukee, Wisconsin.  April 2012.

“Prisons as Economic Savior in New York’s Adirondacks, 1975-1999.”  American Society for Environmental History Annual Meeting.  Phoenix, Arizona.  April 2011.

“Nature, Prisons, and the Olympics: Housing Athletes and Convicts at Lake Placid, New York, 1972-1990.”  American Society for Environmental History Annual Meeting.  Portland, Oregon.  March 2010.

“Prisons, Nature, and Social Reform in New York’s Adirondack Wilderness, 1844-1861.”  Conference on New York State History.  Cooperstown, New York.  June 2007.

Colloquia

“Environmental Politics, Race, and Mass Incarceration in the Adirondack Park, 1976-1999.”  New York Metro Seminar in Environmental History.  Columbia University.  New York, New York.  October 2015.

“Olympic Village or Prison Town? Building the Federal Prison at Ray Brook, New York, 1975-1990.”  Spring Colloquium Series.  Department of History.  Stony Brook University.  Stony Brook, New York.  April 2009.

“Prisons, Nature, and Labor in New York’s Adirondack Wilderness.”  Dissertation Prospectus Mini-Conference.  Department of History.  Stony Brook University.  Stony Brook, New York.  May 2006.

“‘Soviet Vultures’ in the ‘Valley of Opportunity’: Prosperity and Recovery in New York’s Triple Cities, 1933-1935.”  Graduate Student Mini-Conference.  Department of History.  Binghamton University.  Binghamton, New York.  December 2002.

Invited Talks

“Rikers Island: An Environmental History.”  Correctional Association of New York.  Lunch and Learn Lecture Series.  Brooklyn, New York.  June 2026.

“The Olympic Prison.”  iHeart Podcasts.  “Very Special Episodes.”  Interviewed by Zaron Burnett.  December 2025.

Adirondacks for All: Wilderness and Environmental Justice.  Documentary film.  Mountain Lake PBS.  Plattsburgh, New York.  February 2024.

“Camp Gabriels: Sanatorium, College Campus, Prison.”  Adirondack Architectural Heritage.  Adirondack Park Visitors Interpretive Center.  Paul Smiths, New York.  August 2023.

A Prison in the Woods: Environment and Incarceration in New York’s North Country.  Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney Long Lake Public Library.  Long Lake, New York.  July 2023.

“LGBTQ+ People and Places: Uncovering a Forgotten Adirondack History.”  Adirondack Architectural Heritage and the CUNY LGBTQIA+ Consortium.  New York City.  June 2023.

“Prisons in the Woods: The Environmental Impact of Mass Incarceration.”  Eastern State Penitentiary.  Member Saturdays Lecture Series.  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  April 2023.

“Recovering the History of Imprisoned Labor in the Adirondack Park, One Discarded Photo at a Time.”  Pratt Institute.  Center for Critical Discard Research.  Earth Action Week Conference.  Brooklyn, New York.  March 2023.

A Prison in the Woods: Environment and Incarceration in New York’s North Country.  State University of New York College at Cortland.  W.H. Parks Center for Environmental and Outdoor Education.  Raquette Lake, New York.  February 2023.

“Rethinking Vacant Adirondack Prisons.”  Adirondack Architectural Heritage.  Sponsored by John Brown Lives! and Humanities NY.  Keeseville, New York.  February 2023.

“Prisons and Parks in New York’s North Country: Paradox or Partnership?”  Keynote Address.  Academy of Leisure Sciences Annual Meeting.  New Orleans, Louisiana.  February 2023.

“Imprisoned Workers and Environmental Planning in New York’s Adirondack Park.”  Queensborough Community College / CUNY.  Lectures in Inclusive History Series.  Bayside, New York.  November 2022.

A Prison in the Woods: Environment and Incarceration in New York’s North Country.  Paul Smith’s College.  Adirondack Park Visitor Interpretive Center.  Fall Lecture Series.  Paul Smiths, New York.  October 2022.

A Prison in the Woods: Environment and Incarceration in New York’s North Country.  CUNY Academy for the Humanities and Sciences.  Book Talk Series.  New York, New York.  October 2022.

“Prisons, Place, and Power.”  Correctional Association of New York.  New York, New York.  September 2022.

“Camp Gabriels: Sanatorium, College Campus, and Carceral Facility.”  Adirondack Architectural Heritage.  Adirondack Park Visitors Interpretive Center.  Paul Smiths, New York.  August 2022.

“Incarceration, Wilderness, and the Adirondack Paradox.” Adirondacks for All: Identity and Environmental Justice in the Adirondack Park.  Lecture Series sponsored by the Adirondack Experience: The Museum on Blue Mountain Lake, Adirondack Diversity Initiative, the Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks (The Wild Center), and The Nature Conservancy.  Blue Mountain Lake, New York.  June 2022.

“Environment, Coerced Labor, and the History of Incarceration.”  CUNY Academy for the Humanities and Sciences.  Feliks Gross Endowment Award Lecture.  New York, New York.  May 2022.

“Environment and Incarceration: Intersectional Histories.”  Pratt Institute.  Department of Social Science and Cultural Studies Faculty Lecture Series.  Brooklyn, New York.  April 2022.

“Exploring Carceral Architecture in the Adirondacks.”  Adirondack Architectural Heritage.  Keeseville, New York.  March 2022.

A Prison in the Woods: Environment and Incarceration in New York’s North Country.  Lake Placid-North Elba Historical Society.  Lake Placid, New York.  January 2022.

A Prison in the Woods: Environment and Incarceration in New York’s North Country.  Historic Saranac Lake.  Saranac Laboratory Museum.  Saranac Lake, New York.  November 2021.

“Prisons, Environment, and Race in the Adirondack Park.”  Kelly Adirondack Center.  Union College.  Niskayuna, New York.  October 2021.

“Exploring the History of Adirondack Prisons.”  The Adirondack Experience.  The Museum on Blue Mountain Lake.  Monday Evening Summer Xplorations Lecture Series.  Blue Mountain Lake, New York.  August 2021.

A Prison in the Woods: Environment and Incarceration in New York’s North Country.  Empire State Engagements Podcast.  Dr. Robert Chiles, Host.  College Park, Maryland.  June 2021.

A Prison in the Woods: Environment and Incarceration in New York’s North Country.  New Books Network Podcast: Environmental Studies.  Dr. Brian Hamilton, Host.  Deerfield, Massachusetts.  June 2021.

A Prison in the Woods: Environment and Incarceration in New York’s North Country.  John Brown Lives! Westport, New York.  May 2021.

A Prison in the Woods: Environment and Incarceration in New York’s North Country.  Deerfield Academy.  Deerfield, Massachusetts.  May 2021.

A Prison in the Woods: Environment and Incarceration in New York’s North Country.  University of Southern Indiana.  Evansville, Indiana.  March 2021.

A Prison in the Woods: Environment and Incarceration in New York’s North Country.  Paul Smith’s College.  Paul Smiths, New York.  March 2021.

Fiftieth Anniversary of Earth Day.  The Calhoun School.  New York, New York.  April 2020.  Event cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic.

“Environment and Incarceration in New York’s North Country.”  College Art Museum.  State University of New York at Plattsburgh.  In conjunction with “States of Incarceration” Exhibit.  Plattsburgh, New York.  March 2020.

Dialogue with Lonnie Lewis, Jr. and Soffiyah Elijah, Executive Director, Alliance of Families for Justice.  Justice Collective 5th Regional Conference on the Impact of Mass Incarceration on Families and Communities.  Heaven Hill Farm.  Lake Placid, New York.  July 2019.

Dialogue with Tyrell Muhammad, Project Associate, Correctional Association of New York.  State University of New York at Plattsburgh.  In conjunction with John Brown Lives! and SUNY Plattsburgh Diversity Week.  Recorded for broadcast by North Country Public Radio.  Plattsburgh, New York.  February 2017.

“The Environmental History of Adirondack Prisons.”  State University of New York at Potsdam.  Co-sponsored by Departments of History, Environmental Studies, and Sociology.  Potsdam, New York.  November 2015.

“The Environmental History of Adirondack Prisons.”  Department of History.  State University of New York at Potsdam.  Potsdam, New York.  November 2015.

“Prison History and Memory in New York’s North Country.”  Whallonsburg Grange Hall.  Co-sponsored by John Brown Lives! and the Whallonsburg Grange Hall Association.  Essex, New York.  August 2015.

“Prospects for Prison Reform in New York after Matt and Sweat.”  Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Plattsburgh.  Co-sponsored by John Brown Lives!, the North Country Underground Railroad Association, and the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Plattsburgh.  Plattsburgh, New York.  August 2015.

“Richard Matt, David Sweat, and the Challenge of Adirondack Nature.”  Adirondack Research Center.  Saranac Lake Free Library.  Co-sponsored by John Brown Lives! and the Saranac Lake Free Library.  Moderated by Brian Mann, North Country Public Radio / NPR reporter.  Saranac Lake, New York.  August 2015.

“Clinton’s ‘Great Escape’ and the Contested Terrain of North Country Prisons.”  Keene Valley Congregational Church.  Co-sponsored by John Brown Lives! and the Keene Valley Congregational Church, UCC.  Keene Valley, New York.  July 2015.

News Media Appearances

“Guards Beat and Waterboarded Prisoners in New York, Lawsuits Say.”  Interviewed by Benjamin Weiser.  The New York Times.  New York City. January 2024.

“A gap in Adirondack history.”  Interviewed by Holly Riddle.  Adirondack Explorer.  November 2021.

North Country Public Radio.  Interviewed by Emily Russell.  Unpublished.  Plattsburgh, New York.  March 2, 2020.

“Dannemora Breakout turns the Prison Spotlight on Guards.”  Interviewed by Mark Davis.  Seven Days.  Burlington, Vermont.  July 19, 2016.

“Correctional Association Releases Report Detailing Abuse at Clinton Correctional.”  Interviewed by Pat Bradley.  WAMC / Northeast Public Radio.  Plattsburgh, New York.  June 10, 2016.

“Clinton Correctional Remains In Lockdown Following Weekend Prisoner Altercations.”  Interviewed by Pat Bradley.  WAMC / Northeast Public Radio.  Plattsburgh, New York.  September 1, 2015.

“Retribution Against Inmates Not Unexpected in Wake of Escape.”  Interviewed by Pat Bradley.  WAMC / Northeast Public Radio.  Plattsburgh, New York.  August 12, 2015.

“Expert to offer lecture series on prison break.”  Interviewed by Pete Demola.  Sun Community News.  Elizabethtown, New York.  August 6, 2015.

NBC Peacock Productions.  History Channel Documentary on Prison Escapes.  Interviewed by Emmanuel Psihountas.    Unpublished.  New York City.  July 30, 2015.

“Dozens escaped Dannemora prison before Richard Matt and David Sweat.”  Interviewed by Paul Grondahl.  Albany Times-Union.  Albany, New York.  July 8, 2015.

Prison Voices Project Radio Collective.  Interviewed by Alexandra Cox. WGXC 90.7 FM.  New Paltz, New York.  July 1, 2015.

“NY prison escapee’s body, unclaimed by family, may be buried by county.”  Interviewed by Katie Reilly.  Reuters.  New York City.  June 30, 2015.

“New York Prison Break: Arrested Guard Pleads ‘Not Guilty.'”  Interviewed by Stephanie Gosk.  NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt.  NBC News.  New York City.  June 25, 2015.

NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt.  Interviewed by Miguel Almaguer.  NBC News.  Unpublished.  New York City.  June 16, 2015.

“Dangers in the Inmate-Worker Relationship.”  Interviewed by Toure, Ari Melber, Krystal Ball, and Abby Huntsman.  The Cycle.  MSNBC.  New York City.  June 12, 2015.

Interview with Anchor Dan Matheson.  CTV News Channel.  Toronto, Ontario, Canada.  June 11, 2015.

“Not Your Typical Prison.”  Interviewed by Tom Salitsky.  Adirondack Daily Enterprise.  Saranac Lake, New York.  June 11, 2015.

Today.  Interviewed by Lisa Andracke.  NBC News.  Unpublished.  New York City.  June 11, 2015.

“Prison Breaks Past: Several Inmates Have Tried to Escape from N.Y. Prison.”  Interviewed by Audie Cornish.   All Things Considered.  National Public Radio.  New York City.  June 11, 2015.

“New York prison escape among decade’s most audacious breakouts.”  Interviewed by Barbara Goldberg. Reuters.  Washington, D.C.  June 11, 2015.

“A Dozen Officials Suspended As Probe Into N.Y. Prison Break Widens.”  “Update: ‘Dozens of inmates’ say they were abused, beaten following Dannemora escape.”  “In Clinton Dannemora prison, violence, an inmate death and new scrutiny.” Interviewed by Brian Mann. North Country Public Radio.  Saranac Lake, New York.  June 10, 2015.

“Local prison historian interviewed all over.”  Interviewed by Peter Crowley. Adirondack Daily Enterprise.  June 10, 2015.

“Jeff Hall, History professor, on Dannemora/Clinton state prison.”  Interviewed by Tim Denis.  The Tim Denis Morning Show.  610 CKTB Bell Media Niagara.  St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada.  June 10, 2015.

Interview with Chris Cuomo and Alisyn Camerota.  New Day.  CNN.  New York, New York.  June 10, 2015.

“Escape from Clinton Prison Was Neither the First, Nor the Boldest.”  Interviewed by Michael Schwirtz and Michael Winerip.  The New York Times.  New York, New York.  June 9, 2015.

“Prison Historian Discusses Dannemora’s Prisoner Escape Annals.”  Interviewed by Chief Pat Bradley.  WAMC / Northeast Public Radio.  Plattsburgh, New York.  June 9, 2015.

“Search Continues On Third Day for Escaped Prisoners.”  Interviewed by Pat Bradley.  WAMC / Northeast Public Radio.  Plattsburgh, New York.  June 9, 2015.

New York Magazine.  Interviewed by Jamie Fuller.  Unpublished.  New York City.  June 8, 2015.

“History of Violence Plagues Prison Where Breakout Occurred.”  Interviewed by Mary Esch.  Associated Press.  Albany, New York.  June 8, 2015.

“Historian says ‘No prison is 100% secure.'”  Interviewed by Peter Crowley. Adirondack Daily Enterprise.  Saranac Lake, New York.  June 7, 2015.

“Prison saw other breaks for freedom in early years, researcher says.”  Interviewed by Lois Clermont.  Press-Republican.  Plattsburgh, New York.  June 6, 2015.

Professional Affiliations

American Historical Association

American Society for Environmental History

Organization of American Historians

Urban History Association