Courses

I teach very broadly about the global history of the United States, and I also offer several courses in Asian history.

Here is a list of the courses I am currently teaching, and those I have taught recently.

Spring 2018 

History 116: United States History

History 219: History of Modern Japan

History 220: Civil War and Reconstruction

History 250: Civil War Through Film

Winter Session 2019

HON 200: Yucatán

Fall 2018
History 250: U.S. Since 1979

History 250: Sound and Noise in American History

History 313: Nineteenth Century America

History 433: Globalization and Empire

Spring 2018
History 220: Civil War and Reconstruction

History 222: History of Modern Korea

History 250: American Apocalypse

History 360: Junior Research Seminar

Winter Session 2018:
History 325: Radicalism, Terrorism, and Violence in American History
INST 126: Music and Folk Culture of the Southern Appalachians

Fall 2016
History 250: Sound and Noise in American History
History 250: American Buddhism in a Global Age
History 433: Globalization and Empire in American History
History 460: Senior Project Seminar
INST 161: Bees and Beekeeping
Freshman Seminar

Spring 2016-On Sabbatical

Winter Session 2015:
History 325: Radicalism, Terrorism, and Violence in American History
INST 126: Music and Folk Culture of the Southern Appalachians
Spring 2015
History 220: Civil War and Reconstruction
History 250: United States History since 1979
History 313: Nineteenth Century America
History 360: Junior Research Seminar
INST 161: Bees and Beekeeping

Fall 2014
History 250: Sound and Noise in American History
History 350: Asians in America
History 433: Globalization and Empire in American History
History 460: Senior Project Seminar
INST: Freshman Seminar

Spring 2014
History 220: Civil War and Reconstruction
History 313: Nineteenth Century America
History 250: American Apocalypse /American Futurity

Winter Session 2014:
History 325: Radicalism, Terrorism, and Violence in American History
INST 126: Music and Folk Culture of the Southern Appalachians

Fall 2013
History 116: History of the United States
History 250: Frontiers and Borderlands in American History (crosslisted with Introduction to American Studies)
History 219: Buddhisms in Asian History: Sangha, State, and Society
History 328: United States Foreign Relations, 1763-1919
INST: Freshman Seminar

Spring 2013
History 250: United States since 1979
History 250: American Apocalypse /American Futurity
History 360: Junior Research Seminar
History 415: Comparative Colonial Empires
History 417: History of the New South
INST 161: Bees and Beekeeping

Winter Session 2013:
History 325: Radicalism, Terrorism, and Violence in American History
INST 126: Music and Folk Culture of the Southern Appalachians

Fall 2012
History 219: Buddhisms and the State
History 250: Space and Place in the Global United States
History 313: Nineteenth Century America
History 460: Senior Project Seminar
INST: Freshman Seminar

Spring 2012
Civil War and Reconstruction
American Foreign Relations, 1763-1919
Globalization and Empire in American History
Senior Project Seminar
Bees and Beekeeping

Fall 2011
Seminar in Mongolian History and Culture
Space and Place in the Global United States
Junior Thesis Seminar
Freshman Seminar

Spring 2011
Nineteenth Century America
US since 1877

Fall 2010
Modern Korea
Globalization and Empire
US to 1877