Teaching

I teach history courses in a university setting, and I also help students from 5th-12th grade with research and writing skills. For the latter, see here!

My history courses equip students to think, converse, research, and write as historians: to understand key features of historical periods and events; to thoughtfully analyze different types of source materials; and to engage with current scholarship. I believe students at all levels can fruitfully engage primary sources and join in scholarly debates about important issues.

Areas of teaching expertise: early modern Europe, early modern Atlantic world, western civilization, religious history, and the history of print.

Recent courses:

• University of North Alabama
  • Printing and Bookmaking to c.1800 (graduate)
  • The Tudors (graduate)
  • Independent Research (graduate)
  • History of England to 1688 (undergraduate)
  • The English Reformation (graduate and undergraduate)
• Vanderbilt University
  • Witchcraft, Supernatural Phenomena, and Print Culture in Early Modern England, 1558-1650 (writing-intensive undergraduate)
  • The Real Tudors (undergraduate)

Currently, I am an adjunct instructor of history at the University of North Alabama. Previously, I served at Vanderbilt University in several roles, including as Research Assistant Professor of History. In the longer past, I was a history and literature instructor at a secondary school.