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

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

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

Summer II 2022 | HIST 2311: Colonialism and Imperialism (lecture)