teaching
I believe in teaching students the “how” of reading, researching, and writing alongside the “what happened” of history. In all of my courses, students are expected to engage with historical scholarship within and outside of the academy and produce well-researched, well-argued, and creative scholarship (in the form of essays, screenplays, podcasts, and much more!) on course themes that they find essential to understanding our world’s past, present, and future. I am interested in teaching histories of gender and empire in Asia, the history of food in Southeast Asia and the Pacific, animal histories, and agricultural colonialism. As a public historian, I teach courses on podcasting history and digital history production.
Below you will find a list of courses I have previously taught or courses I will teach in the near future. I have also included links to my course syllabi so that you can download and peruse the syllabus for each course should you wish. If you need help accessing any of the course readings, please drop me a note.
Cornell Prison Education Program and Cayuga Community College
Western Civilization II, 1700 - Present (Auburn Correctional Facility)
Fall 2024 Semester
Survey/Lecture Course
Cornell University
Microhistories of Modern Asia (Cornell First-Year Writing Seminar)
Spring 2025 Semester
Seminar/Writing Intensive
Modern Masculinities (Cornell First-Year Writing Seminar)
Fall 2024 Semester
Seminar/Writing Intensive
Animal Histories (Cornell First-Year Writing Seminar)
Spring 2021 Semester (Virtual)
Seminar/Writing Intensive
The Global History of Food (Cornell First-Year Writing Seminar)
Fall 2020 Semester (Virtual)
Seminar/Writing Intensive