Links

The Book!
My first book, The Political Life of Reverend Roland D. Sawyer, comes out on June 15th from Lexington Books! Check it out here.

Research

• My paper on a disputed 1936 Congressional election in New Hampshire is here. I first wrote about this topic in 2020 (see the link below), expanded it into a paper that covered two ‘30s election disputes, then split those off into their own separate papers.

• My paper on a 1922 Congressional election in Vermont - a forgotten instance of a near Democratic victory in the middle of a century of Republican dominance - is available.

• I’ve experimented with putting a sample chapter of my current project, a biography of Maine governor Louis J. Brann, on ResearchGate.

• My paper on the newspaper battle over Congressman Herman Kopplemann of Connecticut’s position on the Spanish Civil War in the Connecticut History Review.

• My first peer-reviewed article, “The Censure of Senator Indiana Jones: The Controversial Election and Scandalous Tenure of Senator Hiram Bingham III,” published in the Connecticut History Review.

• The article itself is on JSTOR, and at this link you can acquire the 2013 issue of Lovecraft Annual, where I had an essay published entitled “New Deal Politics in the Correspondence of H.P. Lovecraft.”

  • This article has been cited three times.

CRS Publications

• My last CRS publication is another in the Election Policy Fundamentals series: The Secret Ballot.

• Two related CRS In Focuses I co-authored: Election Policy Fundamentals, one on Single-Member House Districts, and one on At-Large House Districts.

  • The former In Focus has been cited in a law review article.

• A CRS report on staffing that I co-authored: R43946, Senate Staff Levels: 1977-2022, from August 2, 2023. Another is IN12241, Changes in Pay for Selected House Member Staff Positions, 2021-2022, from September 18, 2023.

  • The former report has been cited four times.

• A CRS In Focus I co-authored, IF12393, on Senators Who Die in Office: History and Current Practices from May 1, 2023.

• Three CRS reports I co-authored on staffing: R44322, House Committee Staff Pay, Selected Positions, 2001-2021, R44324, Staff Pay, Selected Positions in Senators’ Offices, FY2001-FY2021, and R44235, Senate Committee Staff Pay, Selected Positions, FY2001-FY2021, all from September 29, 2022.

  • The second of these reports has been cited in the House Committee on the Modernization of Congress final report.

• My first CRS report, which I co-authored: R47173, Information Access for Congressional Advisory Commissions, July 7, 2022.

Articles

• A bout of Worcester history research this summer resulted in a post on the city’s politics in the ‘20s and ‘30s in the Worcester Sucks And I Love It newsletter.

• An article I wrote for Western Mass Politics and Insight on the occasion of the multiple ballots for Speaker of the House on the last such occasion, the multiple ballots needed to elect Springfield’s own Frederick Gillett in 1923.

• My article at ConnecticutHistory.org, concerning Congressman WIlliam Citron and the Connecticut Valley Authority. The article was published November 23rd, 2020.

• I wrote an article published in early October of 2020 for the website New England Historical Society about a contested Congressional election in New Hampshire in 1936.

• My cousin and I co-wrote an article in WGBH about the first Senate and House elections to pit two women against each other as major party nominees, both of which were in New England. The article was published on August 25th, 2020.

• The Planet Scumm Halloween Election Special was an article on a confluence of election season and ghost season in the person of Essex County Sheriff Robert Ellis Cahill, which I wrote for the website of the science fiction magazine Planet Scumm in the autumn of 2018.

• Gutter Archaeology was a column I wrote for the arts and culture website Spark & Fizz during the summer of 2016. It reviewed and commented upon urban exploration zines.

  You really know you’ve made it in writing when your pieces leave the internet because the domain’s expired. Spark & Fizz is no more, but I’ve managed to grab a few archived links.

  • Part 1: DCinruins (archived)

  • Part 2: Infiltration 1-5

  • Part 3: Infiltration 6-10

  • Part 4: Infiltration 11-15 (archived)

  • Part 5: Infiltration 16-20

  • Part 6: Infiltration 21-25 (archived)

  • Part 7: Drainor (archived)

  • Part 8: Weird NJ (archived)

  • Part 9: Weird NJ (Contemporary Selection)

  • Part 10: About A Ghost Town Bike Tour

  • Part 11: Underneath Providence

  • Part 12: Coda

Other Links

• My ResearchGate profile.

• A link to the publication page for my UMass Amherst School of Public Policy capstone paper, “The Abandoned Shipwrecks Act in Florida.”

  • This paper has been cited twice.

• A link to the news story in MassLive from January, 2015 of my appointment by Senator Anne Gobi as her District Director.