My teaching objectives are to engage students with historical narratives and foster skills of critical thinking that will serve them beyond college and in whatever industry they work in. At Florida Atlantic University, George Mason University, and Georgia State University, I’ve taught across a range of lower-level division courses, upper-level digital history courses, and graduate student practicums. Those classes include HIST 2020: U.S. History Since 1877, HIST 3065: Introduction to Public History, HIST 690: Teaching and Professionalization Practicum, HIS 390: The Digital Past, and WGSS 2010: Intro to Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.

My approach to teaching is shaped by my research in the digital public humanities and my commitment to engaging students with the past through contemporary examples relevant to their lives. Across my classes, my students often explore the history of technology, civic engagement, and the ethics of sharing historical research with the public. To think through these topics and practice the work of a historian, I train students in open-source tools like Omeka S, Tropy, Zotero, and StoryMaps, and guide them in publishing public-facing projects online. These projects, from campus histories to community archives, help students understand how digital systems shape access, interpretation, and memory.

In the spring of 2024, I designed and instructed HIST 390: The Digital Past, an upper-level course at George Mason University that fulfills the Information & Technology core requirement. You can access my syllabus here.

In this course, I co-taught a section of the class with another instructor at the University of Luxembourg for the Introduction to Spatial History and Digital Humanities. Students created an Omeka S webpage comparing past constructions of nineteenth-century European public parks which included historical photographs and a map that geolocated each park. I presented a paper on this novel pedagogical experience at the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations’ Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. (pictured above), and wrote a blog post which describes my teaching experiences using digital tools in the classroom here.