I offer a wide range of courses in U.S. history and the history of medicine. I believe that history education should equip students with the historian’s skill set—the ability to effectively analyze complex primary and secondary sources, contextualize information, develop evidence-based arguments, and demonstrate intercultural competence—as well as deep “content” knowledge. This philosophy animates my course design and assignments, which include history labs, op-eds, and collaborative archival research projects.

I’ve been fortunate to teach in a variety of institutional settings at the undergraduate and graduate level. Before graduate school, I gained invaluable pedagogical training and hands-on experience as a public school teacher. This background informs my teaching in the college classroom, where I employ student-centered pedagogy to foster an active, engaging, and productive classroom experience for my students.

• Syllabus: Frederick Douglass’s America (undergraduate lecture, JMU)
• Syllabus: Civil War and Reconstruction (undergraduate lecture, VMI)
• Syllabus: Plagues and Pandemics in Modern World History (undergraduate lecture, JMU)
• Syllabus: U.S. Militay History (undergraduate lecture, JMU)
• Syllabus: U.S. in the Vietnam War (undergraduate lecture, JMU)