Project Pipeline

Ongoing Projects:
  • The Enduring Southeast Connecticut/Arctic Nexus: A research collaboration with scholars at the Mystic Seaport Museum, the Mystic Aquarium, University of Connecticut - Avery Point, and CT Humanities, on the enduring, centuries-long historic connection of this corner of southern New England to the polar world - from the commercial whaling and exploration eras up to the present and likely, I believe, to re-accelerate with the polar thaw. Sessions at NEPSA 2020 (rescheduled to 2021 due to the pandemic) and NESTVAL 2021 presented the ongoing work of this collaborative research community representing several research institutions in the New London, Groton and Mystic area. (Ongoing)

Recently Completed Projects:
  • Theoretical and Historical Foundations of Arctic Exceptionalism: Book project started at the University of Akureyri during my 2020 Fulbright Scholarship, and completed in August 2021 (Jan 2020 - Aug 2021), currently undergoing revision and reduction in word count.
  • Sovereign Models and Mentors: High North Atlantic Microstates and Arctic Security, Fulbright Scholar Project at the University of Akureyri Polar Law Center, January-May 2020.
  • Tribal Buffer Zones and Regional Stability from the Polar to Oceanic Region: Understanding the Interface between Indigenous Homelands and Modern States, and the Foundations for Stable Borderlands. Very kindly funded by the Kone Foundation from 1 Jan 2016 to 31 Dec 2017.
  • The People of Athens vs. Socrates - the collected dramatic and literary works featuring the founding father of philosophy who was executed by the good people of Athens. In Five volumes. Completed and edited, in search of a publisher!
  • The Collected Writings of Lady Sylvia Brooke, including her short stories, articles, novels, memoirs and plays including newly discovered 'lost works' that were never before published. In Five volumes. Completed and edited, in search of a publisher!
  • Arctic Inferno: The recovered diaries of the C.S.S. Shenandoah and its infamous naval mission on behalf of the Confederate States of America to the Arctic to torch and sink the Yankee whaling fleet. In Three volumes. Completed and edited, in search of a publisher!
  • Unforgetting the 'Forgotten War' in the Aleutians, an anthology of writings on Japan's occupation of the outer Aleutians during World War II, and their eventual liberation by a joint US-Canadian coalition, with perspectives of Japan, Canada, the USA, and the indigenous Unangan included. Completed and edited, in search of a publisher!
 Not Quite Finished Projects:
  • From Headhunters to Hollywood -- the epic saga of the White Rajah film project and Lady Sylvia Brooke's decades-long effort to persuade Hollywood to tell the true story on the silver screen of Sarawak's first white rajah, James Brooke, a project that stalled for three quarters of a century as a studio project, but succeeded (at last) in 2021 as an independent production by Margate House Films (with distribution by Samuel Goldwyn Pictures).
  • Lost at Sea: The recovered writings of John Newland Maffitt, including his unpublished second novel which was nearly completed at the time of his death.
  • Second Act: The legend of Peter Stuart Ney, North Carolina school teacher and, some argue, none other than Marshal Michel Ney, whom history records as being executed in Paris years before.
  • HANSAI: The dramatic story of the accidental atomic destruction Nagasaki's Christian community, and Kokura's miraculous survival.
  • Terror Eyes: Manifestos of American Terror. First person treatises by some of America's most notorious terrorists.