Teaching
I have taught undergraduate and graduate students at a variety of institutions including University of Virginia, Princeton University, and Stony Brook University. These experiences have affirmed my belief that students learn best when they find relevance in the subjects they study, are given ample and diverse opportunities for dialogue and collaboration and learn to negotiate the differences they will find in each other with intelligence and civility. Through my teaching experiences, I have refined my abilities to help students from diverse backgrounds learn how to question widely held assumptions, write persuasively, critically analyze and interpret a variety of evidence, discuss issues productively, and reach conclusions based on careful research, study and reflection.
My commitment to integrating the public humanities and digital humanities into my classrooms stems from my belief in the profound benefit of linking campuses with communities in exciting and mutually enriching ways. For example, I have had my students interview an author of a book we read in class. We then published this interview online.
I have steered a variety of public facing oral history projects since 2004. I currently serve on the executive board of Princeton University’s LGBTQIA Oral History Project. In that capacity, I teach faculty and students how to conduct oral histories. I also help guide the project as we collect and digitally curate the stories of hundreds of LGBTQIA alumni.
Below you will find a list of courses that I teach. Syllabi are available upon request.
COURSES TAUGHT
United States History since 1865
Reproductive Politics in the United States since 1865
Sexual Politics in the United States since 1865
Racial Politics in the United States since 1865
LGBTQ Politics in the United States since 1865
Feminist Thought and Women’s Activism since 1865
Histories of Civil Rights in the United States since 1865
Histories of Youth and Childhood in the United States since 1865
Religion and Sexuality in the United States since 1945
Religion and Conservatism in the United States since 1945
Gender and Medicine in the United States since 1945
Intro to American Studies
Theories and Methods of American Studies
Theories and Methods of Oral History
Theories and Methods of Public History
Intro to Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Theories and Methods of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Feminist Theories and Methodologies
Queer Theories and Methodologies
