Courses Taught

Over the course of my career, I have designed and taught eight undergraduate courses. These range from introductory courses, more focused intermediate courses, and upper-level seminars on a variety of topics in modern European, American, and world history. I also served as Teaching Assistant for three additional courses and have gained one-on-one teaching experience as an academic tutor and senior thesis advisor.

History 104: Modern Europe
Furman University (Fall and Spring 2018-19)
During the 2018/19 academic year at Furman, I designed and taught four sections of Modern Europe, an introductory course on European history.  Through engaging lectures, activities, a progression of writing assignments, and the analysis of a diverse range of historical sources, students learned how the continent transformed socially, economically, politically, and myriad other ways from 1750 to the present.  I managed course content using the Moodle LMS.

History 211: Twentieth Century Germany
Furman University (Spring 2019)
Beginning in 1871, this course traced the rise and fall of the German Empire, the cultural flowering of Weimar democracy, the origins of the Third Reich and the Holocaust, the divisions of the Cold War, and the history of German society since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Students used the Moodle LMS system to initiate classroom discussions and learned to write a basic website using Wix to make their final research project accessible to the public.

History 213: Nation and Race in Modern Europe
Furman University (Spring 2019)
From Brexit to the Eurocrisis to debates over borders and immigration, questions of nation and race continue to shape current events in Europe in profound and unexpected ways. In order to better understand their impact, this class investigated how European nation-states have developed over time, how nationalism has generated both community and conflict, and how Europeans have interacted with peoples and cultures from beyond the continent’s borders. We paid particular attention to minorities, refugees, and foreigners who do not fit neatly into standard national histories. I managed course content and discussions using the Moodle LMS.

History 600: Recovering America’s World War II MIAs
University of Wisconsin-Madison (Spring 2017)
In this upper-division seminar, a first-of-its-kind collaboration between a university and the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), students conducted research that contributed to ongoing efforts to find, identify, and repatriate the remains of America’s Missing in Action service members from World War II. After delivering an oral presentation, they wrote meticulously detailed reports on their findings that were sent to DPAA’s researchers.

History 357: The Second World War
University of Wisconsin-Madison (Fall 2016)
History 357 examined the Second World War in global context, from the battlefields of Europe to the islands of the Pacific and the deserts of North Africa. First-hand accounts, music, historical artifacts, and films helped students answer the central questions of why the Allies emerged victories and how has the war been remembered by different nations. For their final research project, students created a museum exhibition on their preferred topic. In addition to designing the course and giving lectures, I oversaw the work of my Teaching Assistant, who led discussion sections and evaluated student work.

Courses for which I Served as Teaching Assistant

In addition to designing and teaching my own courses, I served as a Teaching Assistant at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for the following courses:

History 313: Introduction to Byzantine History and Civilization (Spring, 2012)

History 359: Europe since 1945 (Fall, 2010)

History 120: Europe and the Modern World 1815 to the Present (Spring, 2010)

Academic Tutoring

In the spring of 2017, I served as a Teaching Assistant in the History Lab, an innovative tutoring center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  In this role, I provided one-on-one tutoring to assist undergraduates with their academic writing, worked with other tutors to develop instructional guides, and developed an online writing quiz using HTML and JavaScript.

From 2015 to the fall of 2016, I mentored students in conversational English and German as a volunteer tutor for the UW-Madison Greater University Tutoring Service.