Daniel J. Burge is an instructor at the University of Alabama, where he received his Ph.D. in 2017. His research examines the intersection of humor and empire in the United States in the nineteenth century. He has published articles in the Western Historical Quarterly and the Alabama Review, and has forthcoming articles in two edited collections. He is the winner of numerous fellowships, including awards from the New England Regional Fellowship Consortium, the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, the Kentucky Historical Society, and the Massachusetts Historical Society. He can be reached at djburge@crimson.ua.edu.