Tad teaches public history as a lecturer in the Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies program at Johns Hopkins University. He is also the author of the forthcoming A RESISTANCE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES (Steerforth Press, 2026), and serves as the Film and Digital Media Editor of The Public Historian. 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.