Professor Kaser’s academic interests include utopian communitarian movements, Staten Island history, and Swiss immigrant settlements in the United States.
Degrees
Ph.D., American Studies, Bowling Green State University
M.A., American Studies, Bowling Green State University
M.L.S., Kent State University
B.A., magna cum laude, Kenyon College
“Reading Queer History through the Private Album,” pp. 175-189 in Clark and Williams, eds. Sources and Methods in the History of Sexuality. New York: Routledge, 2025.
“A Scissored Life of the 1930s and 1940s: The Scrapbooks of Ogden Salmon,” pp. 97-114 in Trent and Belden-Adams, eds. Diverse Voices in Photographic Albums. New York: Routledge, 2023.
The New Orleans of Fiction: A Research Guide. Lanham, Md.: The Scarecrow Press, 2014.
Chicago in Fiction: A Research Guide. Lanham, Md.: The Scarecrow Press, 2011.
The Washington, D.C. of Fiction: A Research Guide. Lanham, Md.: The Scarecrow Press, 2006.
At the Bivouac of Memory: History, Politics, and the Battle of Chickamauga. New York: Peter Lang, 1996.
