Professor LaCombe teaches courses in early America, the American Revolution, Native American history, food and history, antebellum cultural history, and a research methods seminar on Jamestown's first fifteen years.
Professor LaCombe's book Political Gastronomy focused on the English Atlantic world before 1650, and in particular the role of food in interactions between English travelers and native groups. His new project is a study of knowledge production within the genre of English travel writing.