Dr. Joe, as his colleagues like to call him, is a historian. He earned his PhD from the University of Bristol in West England, though a Yank through and through. He’s also a veteran of the U.S. Navy (1986-1992). In fact, he first started his collegiate teaching for the Navy in the NCPACE program in 2011, and in the same year began teaching at Yuba College. Dr. Joe also taught at Butte College, where he earned the coveted Golden Apple Award in 2020.
Joe lives in Butte Creek Canyon, where his love affair for riparian waterways began. He served for five years on the board of the Centerville Recreation and Historical Association, arbiters of the Colman Museum and the old single-room Centerville Schoolhouse. “Fireproof Peaches” is the name of his small orchard. Joe grows three heirloom varieties, Coral Star, Suncrest, and O’Henry.
Dr. Joe is also a published author, The Execution of Admiral John Byng as a Microhistory of Eighteenth-Century Britain (London: Routledge, 2021).