Tad teaches public history as a lecturer in the Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies program at Johns Hopkins University. He is also the Film and Digital Media Editor of The Public Historian, as well as a filmmaker with his own studio, Størmerlige Productions LLC. An alumnus of Harvard University, Johns Hopkins, Tulane University School of Law, and the University of Virginia, he earned a PhD in History from UVA in 2010, specializing in the American Revolution.

A native of Baltimore, Maryland, and the son of a career officer in the United States Navy, Tad is a veteran of the United States Army. He and his family split their time between Cape Cod and the Bahamas.