Tad examines the history of resistance and resistance movements as a visiting scholar in the Center for American Studies at the University of Southern Denmark. 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. Tad is concurrently a lecturer in the Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies at Johns Hopkins University. An alumnus of Harvard University, Johns Hopkins, Tulane University School of Law, Goodenough College (London), 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 now live in Denmark.