My teaching revolves around making connections: between the past and the present, across disciplines and between the classroom and the "real world." 

I teach a wide range of topics and I love designing new courses when an opportunity arises for a new partnership or to give my students new experiences. This semester (Spring 2023), for example, I'll be joining Prof. Medha Sarkar's Software Engineering course to work on a new, interactive platform for Hidden Town in 3D, which is a collaborative project with MTSU's Animation and Public History Programs and Old Salem Museum and Gardens. My Digital Tools for Historians graduate class may partner with Dr. Bren Martin's Seminar in Public Programming for Historical Organizations and the Bradley Academy Museum and Cultural Center. 

I think teaching History is about doing, making, and experimenting and my students practice project-based learning. Many of my courses have an MTEngage and/or EXL (experiential learning) designation and have field components with real-world applications. 
COURSES TAUGHT:
Middle Tennessee State University
  • Hist 7995 Digital History Field School: Hidden Town in 3D (Maymester 2018)
  • Hist 3075: Food and Culture of Renaissance Italy (Summer 2022 Study Abroad course)
  • Hist 3090: Science, Religion, and Magic in Early Modern Europe (Fall 2018)
    • Reacting to the Past Course
  • Hist 6450/7450 Digital Tools for Historians (Spring 2017) 
    • Hands-on graduate course for both traditional and public history MA and PhD students. Syllabus
  • ​Hist 3870 Digital Public History: Mapping Local Stories
  • Hist 2010 U.S. History to 1877 (Fall 2016, Spring 2017) 

University of Arkansas
  • Crash Course in Digital Humanities for Liberal Arts Graduate Students (January 2022)
    • Weeklong workshop co-led with Dr. Andrew Fialka

​Stanford University
  • Hist 10B/110B Early Modern Europe Survey (Spring 2016)
  • Hist 17S Identities of Early Modern Noble Women (Spring 2011)
    • "Sources and methods" course designed to coach potential majors in the skills of primary source analysis, critique, writing and revision. Syllabus

​GRADUATE DIGITAL PROJECTS OVERSEEN: