Associate 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 a historian of United States history. My research interests include nineteenth-century transnational history, the United States Civil War, slavery, and Brazil. My teaching includes courses on colonial and 19th-century US history, pirates, and Texas. I have written a book, 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 and direct the Professionalism and the Humanities (PATH) Leadership Program.
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