Thomas A. Guiler is a sixth year PhD candidate in American social and cultural history at Syracuse University. In particular, he studies the material culture and built environment of intentional communities at the turn of the twentieth century. Aside from work on the Oneida Community, he is currently writing a dissertation on America’s Progressive Era Arts and Crafts utopias: Roycroft, Byrdcliffe, Rose Valley, and Craftsman Farms. This project examines these groups as unique transitional communities that marketed the simple life, handcraftsmanship, and artwork as powerful forms of conscientious consumption in an attempt to transform the harsh inequalities of modern industrial capitalism. I am also currently a New York Council for the Humanities Public Humanities Fellow.