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I am a writer and educator. I have authored two books 2015's Bluegrass in Baltimore: The Hard Drivin' Sound & its Legacy (McFarland), and 2019's Leftover Salmon: Thirty Years of Festival (Rowman & Littlefield). I have contributed to The Phish Companion: A Guide to the Band & Their Music (Backbeat Books, 2004), One-Win Wonders (SABR, 2024), the upcoming New Dimensions in Bluegrass Scholarship (U. of Illinois Press 2024), and was an editor on the upcoming Buffalo Bills 1964 (McFarland, 2024).In November 2016, Bluegrass in Baltimore was awarded a Certificate of Merit from the Association for Recorded Sound Collections for excellence in Best Research in Recorded Country Music. In January 2017 it was named one of the thirty best books about bluegrass music by About Great Books. My next book, The Original Louisville Slugger: The Life & Times of Forgotten Baseball Legend Pete Browning, will be published in 2024 by the University Press of Kentucky.My work has also appeared in a variety of publications including Bluegrass Unlimited, Paste, Relix, SABR, AmericanaUK, Inside Lacrosse, and Honest Tune.In 2023 I co-curated "Ola Belle Reed: I’ve Endured," an exhibition at the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery on the campus of the University of Maryland Baltimore County. The exhibition explored the life and work of nationally recognized bluegrass musician Ola Belle Reed, and contextualized her achievements within a history of migration from rural Appalachia north in the twentieth century.