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Biography
Dr. Moore is a historian of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Europe whose teaching and research explore the intersections of history, folklore, memory, and identity. He teaches courses on modern European and Central European history as well as classes that examine how folklore and legend influence history, culture, and society.
His research focuses on the complexity of identity formation and the ways individuals and communities are shaped by cultural, political, and social institutions. In particular, it explores the relationship between history, historical memory, and folklore in Central Europe and the wider Atlantic world.
Dr. Moore earned his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, College Park, his M.A. from Old Dominion University, and his B.A. from the College of William & Mary.
Research Interests
Teaching Interests
Of Note
Dr. Moore appeared in “Grace Sherwood: The Witch of Pungo,” an episode of Revolution 250: Stories from the First Shore, produced by WHRO, the local PBS affiliate for Hampton Roads, Virginia. This episode was based, in part, on his book, The Witch of Pungo.
Publications
Books:
The Witch of Pungo: Grace Sherwood in Virginia History and Legend (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2024).
Teaching the Empire: Education and State Loyalty in Late Habsburg Austria (West LaFayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2020).
Articles and Book Chapters:
“World War as Culture War: The Reichspost and Austrian Conservative Imagining of the First World War,” The Making of Modern Atlantic Monarchies, vol 2. Fall, Strife, Survival: Conservative Monarchism since the Age of Extremes, 1900-2020, edited by Carolina
Armenteros and Iason Zarikos, Bloomsbury, 2026, 43-55.
“Ordeal by Touch: Family, Social Order, and Superstition in Colonial Virginia’s Eastern Shore,” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography (Jun. 2025), 91-121.
“Modern, Constitutional and Multinational: Images of the Habsburg Monarchy in Austrian Schools, 1867-1914,” in Modernizing Europe’s Imperial Monarchies: Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Russia in the Nineteenth Century, edited by Heidi Hein-Kircher and Frederik Frank Sterkenburgh, Palgrave MacMillian, 2025, 303-323.
“Vaterland, Heimat, and the Family of Nations: Education and Identity Formation in Late-Habsburg Austria,” Nationalities Papers (Jan. 2025), 1-20.
“The Momo Challenge and the Intersection of Contemporary Legend and Moral Panic,” Contemporary Legend series 4, vol. 1 (Jan. 2023), 1-34. Excerpted in Monsters: A Bedford Spotlight Reader, 3rd ed., edited by Andrew J. Hoffman, Bedford/St. Martin’s Macmillian Learning, 2025, 54-59.
“The Professionalisation of Teaching: Teacher Training and Education Reform in Austria,1867-1914,” History of Education 48, no. 3 (May 2019), 336-355.
“An Emperor by a Different Name: Patriotic Celebrations in Imperial and Republican Austria,” Contributions to Contemporary History 57, no. 3 (December 2017), 66-78.
Awards
Board of Regents Faculty Research Award for Eastern Connecticut State University, 2025.
Board of Regents Faculty Teaching Award for Eastern Connecticut State University, 2023.
Menor Award for Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity, 2019.