Teaching

I mostly teach courses in European history and the history of gender and sexuality. In developing syllabi, lectures, and assignments, I have greatly benefited from the assistant of a wide range of teacher-scholars. In that vein, I am happy to share some of my course materials. Below you’ll find a selection of my most recent syllabi, handouts, and assignments. For obvious reasons, I did not include exams, but they are available upon request. Feel free to use and adapt to your own needs, but please provide credit where applicable. And please get in touch with any questions or comments.

Syllabi

• Encountering the Past: The French Revolution: A new introductory course using the French Revolution as a case study. The Loyola University Maryland History Department introduced “Encountering the Past” in the 2021-2022 Academic Year. You can see a sample of current case studies on our webpage (last taught Spring 2023, Loyola University Maryland)
• The Making of the Modern World: Europe (Online Version): A survey of European history from 1500 to the present, designed for online instruction during the Covid-19 pandemic (last taught Fall 2020, Loyola University Maryland)
• The Making of the Modern World: Europe: A regular version of my European history survey (last taught Fall 2019, Loyola University Maryland)
• The Human Drama: Renaissance to Modern: An honors seminar in the “great books” tradition (last taught Fall 2020, Loyola University Maryland)
• World Civilizations Since 1500: An introductory, general education survey of modern world history (last taught Fall 2016, University of Southern Mississippi)
• Gender, Race, and Class in Modern Europe: An upper-level survey of nineteenth and twentieth-century European history through the lens of marginalized groups (last taught Spring 2020, Loyola University Maryland)
  • Covid-19 Adjusted Version
• Nineteenth-Century Europe: An upper-level survey of nineteenth-century European history (last taught Spring 2019, Loyola University Maryland)
• Gay and Lesbian History: An advanced survey of American and European gay and lesbian history from the eighteenth century to the present (last taught Fall 2017, University of Southern Mississippi)
• A Queer History of Europe and North America: A revised version of “Gay and Lesbian History” designed for non-majors (last taught Spring 2023, Loyola University Maryland)
• Sex and the City: An advanced course in urban history and the history of sexuality, with an emphasis on the United States and Europe (last taught Spring 2019, Loyola University Maryland)
• Global Histories of Sexuality: A seminar in nineteenth- and twentieth-century global sexuality studies (last taught Fall 2020, Loyola University Maryland)
• History in the Digital Age: My first attempt at a digital history seminar for majors (last taught Spring 2018, University of Southern Mississippi)

Handouts

• Document Analysis Self-Assessment: This worksheet takes students through the requirements of a short primary source analysis after they have written their first draft.
• French Revolution Chronology: This abbreviated chronology of the French Revolution highlights events to be discussed in class: those in bold emphasize events in France, those italicized emphasize events in the French colonies.
• A Guide to Reading John Locke’s A Letter Concerning Toleration: A series of questions to help students in a European history class read through this text. Though relatively brief, it is one of the longer texts assigned in the class.
• How to Answer an Identification Question: Based on Robert Blackey’s History: Core Elements for Teaching and Learning, this handout offers two strategies for students about to answer their first identification questions in a history course.
• The History of Sexuality Reading Guide: A guide for history majors reading Michel Foucault’s The History of Sexuality prior to discussion of selections from the text.

Assignments

• Engagement: An attempt to replace “participation” grades, with a simple rubric.
• 3-2-1 Posts: Using the discussion board function in Moodle, this assignment has students share 3 things they learned, 2 things they didn’t understand, and 1 discussion question on a reading.
• Use of History: This essay assignment is the culmination of Making of the Modern World: Europe and is meant to have students think about the ways that history continues to shape their lives today. It builds on some of the skills practiced in a related discussion board assignment.
• Textbook Analysis: This assignment asked students to analyze and contribute to select chapters of standard European history textbooks in order to prepare for a final assignment where students would create timelines of European history from the perspectives of marginalized groups (unfortunately not completed due to Covid-19).
  • Rubric