I aim to show students how the world around them is shaped by history, and hence why history is important to their everyday lives.
My classes are geared toward introducing students to a variety of different voices and perspectives. All of my courses feature a broad range of primary sources that reflect divergent and often‑contradictory views. Class discussion is often centered around an analysis of the major points of disagreement between these different sources. My goal is to get students to think critically about the ways in which historical narratives are constructed and, in many cases, to do the work of historians themselves. I believe that this sets students up for success within the academic context, but also helps to develop skills that employers find valuable as well.
My classes are interactive and fast‑moving. I intersperse lectures with in‑class activities and discussion that tie the material at hand to contemporary problems. My pedagogical goal is for my students to push themselves; to question themselves, each other, and their world. While this can be a destabilizing experience, I believe that it can be a profoundly enriching one as well.
Teaching Experience
I have been a sessional instructor at the University of the Fraser Valley in Abbotsford, BC, where I taught US history, environmental history, and the history of medicine.
SESSIONAL INSTRUCTOR, UNIVERSITY OF THE FRASER VALLEY
- Slavery in the Americas (online), 2020
- US History to 1865 (online), 2020
- Medicine in the Modern World (online), 2020, 2022
- Modern Environmental History, 2021
- From the Big Stick to the CIA: The Troubled History of Inter-American Relations, 2021
I have taught a broad range of courses at the University of Oregon — from US in the 1960s to World History and Latin American History. These included in‑person courses where I lectured and led class discussions but also online courses, which required me to create and maintain a course website, as well as to record videos and lectures.
INSTRUCTOR OF RECORD, UNIVERSITY OF OREGON
- American Radicalism (online), 2019
- African American History, 1877‑Present, 2017
- African American History, 1600‑1877, 2016
GRADUATE TEACHING FELLOW, UNIVERSITY OF OREGON
- US in the 1960s, 2017
- World History, 1500‑1800, 2017
- US Business History, 2016
- African American History, 1600‑1877, 2016
- Nineteenth-Century American History, 2016
- War in the Modern World, 2015
- Modern Europe, 2015
- Early Modern Europe, 2015
- Ancient and Medieval Western Civilization, 2014
- History of Latin America, 2014
- Nineteenth-Century American History, 2014
- Early American History, 2013
TEACHING AREAS
- US History Survey
- African American History
- History of Medicine
- Legal History
