Teaching

Trained as a Latin Americanist, and with interests in social movements, historical geography, and oceans, my teaching spans a wide geography and time periods. I currently teach at the University of Texas at El Paso (since 2024), and I previously taught at Rollins College (2019-2024).

The 2023 graduating class at Rollins College nominated and awarded me the Hugh F. McKean Award for teaching excellence. The 2023 graduating class at Rollins recently nominated and selected me for the Hugh F. McKean Award for teaching excellence. The 2023 graduating class at Rollins recently nominated and selected me for the Hugh F. McKean Award for teaching excellence.

At the introductory level, I have taught:

  • Haitian Revolution

  • Contact and Conquest: Mexico, sixteenth century

  • History of Lima

  • Histories of the Pacific

  • Revolution in Chile, 1970s

  • South America since 1810.

At the advanced undergraduate level, classes have included:

  • Afro-Latin America

  • Latin America’s Cold War

  • Colonial Latin America

  • Modern Latin America

  • Historical Marxism

  • Modern Peru

  • Revolutionary Latin America.

And at the graduate level, I have offered:

  • Research Seminar

  • Latin American Literature and Methods

  • Modern Peru

  • Origins of Modernity

In 2023, with Claire Strom, I organized and took students at Rollins College on a summer field study to Chile. In the coming years I hope to return to Chile with students, and perhaps take groups to Peru, as well.