In teaching, I emphasize the notion of history-as-inquiry, encouraging students to think about not only what we know about the past, but how and why we know it. I prefer to use as many primary texts as possible; an exercise that has proven quite popular involves assembling primary document sets to have students work with in class.

I see my role in the classroom as the facilitator of discussion and inquiry rather than as the gatekeeper of definitive answers. My goal is to emphasize the multiplicity of perspectives as well as the complexity of issues rather than emphasize the “correctness” of one over another.

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Our Lady of the Lake University
San Antonio, Texas

HIST 1355 – World History to 1500
(fall 2022, fall 2023, spring 2024, fall 2024, fall 2025)

HIST 1356  – World History since 1450
(fall 2021, spring 2022, fall 2022, fall 2023, spring 2023, fall 2024, spring 2025, fall 2025)

HIST 2391 – Sports and Social Activism in History
(fall 2024, spring 2025)

HIST 3335 – Economic History of the United Sates
(spring 2024)

HIST 3360 – History of Women in the Americas
(spring 2025)

HIST 5335 – History of Modern Europe
(fall 2023, fall 2025)

HIST 5337 – Modern Asia
(fall 2022)

HIST 5360 – History of the Islamic World
(fall 2024)

HIST 5370 – Selected Topics in World History: Plagues and Pandemics
(spring 2022)

HIST 5381 – Senior Essay (directed study)

HIST 5385 – Internship in History (directed study)

HNRS 1300 – Exploring the University (service learning course)
(fall 2025)

INDS 1311 – Applications of Learning
(fall 2023)

The University of Texas at Austin

HIS 366N – World War I: The Colonial Experience
(spring 2020)

MES 301L – Introduction to the Middle East: Adjustment and Change in Modern Times
(spring 2022)

MES 301K – Introduction to the Middle East: Religious, Social, Historical Foundations
(summer 2017)

St. Edward’s University
Austin, Texas 

CULF 3331 – Terrorism and Extremist Movements
(Fall 2018)

CULF 3331 – Modern Egypt
(spring 2019)

CULF 3331 – The Middle East from World War I to the Syrian Conflict
(spring 2017, fall 2017)

GLST 1327 – Introduction to the Middle East and North Africa
(spring 2018)

GLST 2349 – Plagues and Pandemics
(fall 2020)

HIST 2349/4349 – The Middle East from Muhammad to the Mongols
(spring 2019)

HIST 2310 – Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism
(fall 2021)