Background

Ed was born and raised in Rochester, Minnesota, and received his BA in History and American Studies from Saint Olaf College, and his MA in History from William and Mary.  He is currently in his third year of doctoral studies and is interested in the political and cultural history of the Americas during the colonial period and also the early United States and its hemispheric connections in the late-eighteenth and early-ninteenth centuries.  Although he misses Minnesota winters, he loves the tidewaters and mountains of Virginia and is gradually being turned into a bluegrass fan.  Someday he will jump in his car and take Route 52 back home to MN and write a song about his experience on the road.