Being an engaged scholar has been a core part of Chris’ professional and educational life. He has transformed knowledge of the academic discipline of history into public humanities projects, written for the public, and engaged with controversial ideas as a way to empathize with different perspectives.
Chris has worked in a range of ways with the following museums and public-facing initiatives:
- Nantucket Historical Association
- Brooklyn Historical Society
- New York Council for the Humanities
- WNET/PBS
- New-York Historical Society
- Sexing History
- New Books in History
He has also written for a number of publications, including:
- The Activist History Review
- The Advocate
- AHA Today
- Los Angeles Blade
- Not Even Past
- Teaching U.S. History
- The Washington Post