Teaching

Teaching experience:

I am currently an Adjunct Instructor in the Department of History at the University of North Alabama, where I teach graduate and undergraduate courses in European history. In 2026, I received the Outstanding Adjunct Faculty Award from UNA's College of Arts, Sciences, and Engineering.

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.

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 (online):
  • Women and Religion in 19th Century Britain (graduate)
  • 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)