Approach

Engaging with resources is integral to my teaching practice. It only takes a small spark of interest in an aspect of history to fuel sustained captivation with the field, and I try to start developing that fascination early in the semester with primary sources and different perspectives of the past. I intentionally provide an alternative history to topics students might feel they know to draw them into discussion and begin to think; to help them become investigators of the past. My courses are structured around connecting the events of the past to the developments of the present to reinforce the fact that history is messy, forgetful, and nonlinear. People, and their actions, are often the driving forces that led us to where we are today.

“The burned hand teaches best. After that, advice about fire goes to the heart.”

– JRR Tolkein

Courses

Butler University

HST 205/ TI 204 – Colonial America, Fall 2024

HST 306 – Global Pandemics, Fall 2024

HST 101 –Introduction to History, Anthropology, and Classics, Fall 2024, 2023

HST 205/ 204 – History of U.S. Medicine, Spring 2024

HST 302 – Junior Research Seminar on Methods,  Spring 2024

FYS 101 and 102 – Space, Place and Memory, Fall 2023- Spring 2024

HST 205/ TI 204 – American Revolutions: Whose Revolution Was It?,  Fall 2023

Northeastern University

HIST 2311: Colonialism and Imperialism (lecture), Summer 2022

HIST 1215: Origins of Today, Global Pandemics (online, asynchronous, lecture), Fall 2020

HIST 3322: History of Medicine in North America (seminar), Fall 2019