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HIST 350: The Historian’s Craft

Undergraduate course, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2014

I was the teaching assistant for this pilot semester for a new undergraduate seminar in theory and methods.

HIST 350: The Historian’s Craft

Undergraduate course, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2015

I was the teaching assistant for the second run of this new undergraduate seminar in theory and methods, which we redesigned over the break.f

HIST / AMST 141: The American West

Undergraduate course, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 2018

I taught this course—a Yale College staple for over a half century—during the fall semesters of 2018 and 2019.

HIST 155 / AMST 255: California Capitalism

Undergraduate course, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 2019

I created this course, a transnational history of the United States as told through the case study of California’s rise from an elusive colonial possession on the eastern rim of the Pacific Basin to the fifth largest economy in the world in the past decade.

HIST 019 / AMST 028: The History of the Book in the American West

First-year seminar, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 2019

I taught this first-year seminar on western Americana in Spring 2019. Later that spring, I participated in a course redesign program offered by Yale’s Poorvu Center and created its successor, which focused more directly on collecting, relegating western Americana to a case study in that broader history.

HIST / AMST 141: The American West

Undergraduate course, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 2019

I taught this course—a Yale College staple for over a half century—during the fall semesters of 2018 and 2019.

HIST 155 / AMST 255: California Capitalism

Undergraduate course, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 2020

I taught this redesigned lecture a second time, with the added challenge of switching to remote instruction after midsemester due to COVID-19. A transnational history of the United States as told through the case study of California’s rise from an elusive colonial possession on the eastern rim of the Pacific Basin to the fifth largest economy in the world in the past decade.

HIST 019 / AMST 028: Book Collecting in History

First-year seminar, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 2020

I taught this redesigned first-year seminar on book collecting in Spring 2020, with the added challenge of switching to remote instruction after midsemester due to COVID-19.