I acquire books in history and politics, with a special focus on colonial, revolutionary, and nineteenth-century American history and series centered on the American presidency and on the history and future of democracy. I also oversee a series on Early Modern German history, and my portfolio includes academic and trade books on the history and culture of Virginia. As a transnational historian by training, I am excited about manuscripts that put historical developments in broad temporal and geographic contexts.

I graduated with a B.A. in History from Shepherd College in 2004 and earned my Ph.D. in History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2011. In 2005, I got my start in academic publishing by working on the George L. Mosse Series in the History of European Culture, Sexuality, and Ideas at the University of Wisconsin Press. For a decade, I worked in the books program of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture at William & Mary (whose titles are published by the University of North Carolina Press) before joining UVA Press in 2019.

Clayton is Marketing and Sales Associate at the Press and the Assistant Editor for The American South Series and A Nation Divided: Studies in the Civil War Era. He graduated with a BA in History from Pomona College and earned his PhD from the University of Virginia in 2020.