Assistant Professor of History
History / Academic
- Office:
- Sherman Hall 122
- Mailbox:
- 61606
- Phone:
- 903.813.2214
Education:
B.A., Creighton University
M.A., The University of Kansas
Ph.D., The University of Kansas
Faculty Bio:
I am an Assistant Professor of United States history. My research interests include nineteenth-century transnational history, the United States Civil War, Texas, slavery, gender, Mexican American history, trade networks, borderlands, immigration, Brazil, and citizenship. My teaching dabbles in a range of topics such as origin stories, Confederate colonies in the Amazon, and Texas’ love of H-E-B. My most recent scholarship is my book with the University of Nebraska Press, A Different Manifest Destiny: Southern Identity, Citizenship, and Survival in Nineteenth-Century South America. I also work with Austin College’s CIC Legacies of American Slavery grant team.
Recent Courses:
- History of the U.S. to 1876
- U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction
- Mexican American history
- Texas history
- Colonial American and Revolution history
- Early 19th Century US history
- Smugglers and Pirates
- JanTerm
- First-Year Seminar