Teaching

Currently Teaching

FALL 2026

McMaster University — HISTORY 3HT3: Teaching and Learning of History
Historical evidence, interpretation, and communication through lectures and source-based labs.

University of Waterloo — HIST200: History and Film
Film as historical evidence and interpretation in its political, cultural, and social contexts.

Wilfrid Laurier University, Brantford — HI223: Playing in the Past
Games as historical arguments: rules, perspectives, player choices, and ethics.

University of Waterloo

COURSES & COURSE DESIGN

A (Long) History of the Internet

2021–2026

The historical development and social significance of digital communication. Original course created by Professor Ian Milligan; my teaching includes classroom and online delivery.

History and Film

FALL / WINTER · 2023–2026

Film history in classroom and online settings, including the Fall 2026 offering. Students examine screen representations as historical evidence and interpretation.

Engineering Consent: The Century of the Self

FALL / WINTER · 2024–2025

Persuasion and the relationships among economics, politics, and everyday life. Students investigate how corporations and political actors have drawn on psychology, advertising, and mass media to shape desires and identities.

Apocalyptic Cinema and Global History

FALL / WINTER · 2022–2025

Film as a way to explore historical anxieties and imagined futures. Screenings and discussion connect science fiction, dystopia, and apocalyptic narratives with their political, cultural, and technological contexts.

Consumerism and YOU!

FALL / WINTER · 2023–2024

A course exploring consumer culture through economic and cultural history. Students examine how consumption connects everyday choices with wider patterns of production, identity, and social change.

Disney: Nostalgia and Progress

FALL / WINTER · 2022–2024

Disney parks as constructed historical environments. Students investigate how themed spaces communicate ideas about national identity, nostalgia, technology, race, gender, and progress.

The Cold War: ReLIVEd

2021–2022

A course combining Cold War history with research and communication skills. Curated media, experiential assignments, and a roleplay set in 1983 invite students to investigate competing perspectives and political decision-making.

History of Western Sport

EARLIER TEACHING & TEACHING ASSISTANCE

Sport in its social and historical contexts, connecting institutions, culture, and identity.

The Art and Craft of History

EARLIER TEACHING

Historical methods, archival research, and cultural history through undergraduate instruction, seminars, and teaching assistance.

Wilfrid Laurier University

WATERLOO & BRANTFORD

Playing in the Past: History and Games

WINTER & FALL · 2026

Games as interpretations of history. Students investigate how rules, player choices, and perspectives shape historical arguments, and assess the ethical questions built into game systems.

History of Modern Britain

FALL · 2025

Modern Britain through the relationships among political change, culture, and society. Historical sources and discussion connect broad developments with lived experience.

History of Popular Culture

FALL · 2025

Popular culture as historical evidence and as a force in social life. Media examples connect cultural expression with politics, identity, and historical change.

Science in the Modern World

WINTER · 2025

Science in its social and historical contexts, connecting developments in knowledge with the institutions, cultures, and public debates that shape their meaning.

History of Computing: Modern Information Revolutions

FALL · 2023

Computing and digital communication in their historical contexts, connecting technological change with communication, culture, and society.

US Cultural History and Rock ’n’ Roll

FALL · 2022

Musical change in its social, racial, economic, and cultural contexts. Listening and discussion connect popular music with wider developments in US history.

Untold Stories in Modern Canadian History

FALL · 2022

A thematic course challenging familiar national narratives through colonialism, identity, industrialization, immigration, and popular culture.

Contemporary Europe: 1945–2000

WINTER · 2022

Postwar Europe through political, economic, and cultural change, with readings and discussion investigating the forces that shaped the region after 1945.

University of Toronto Mississauga

HISTORY, MEDIA & CONSUMER SOCIETY

Shopping and Society

FALL · 2024 | WINTER · 2026

Consumption as a social and cultural practice. Advertising, retail spaces, identity, class, gender, and branding connect everyday purchases with broader questions about the meanings of consumer society.

History of Information and Media

FALL · 2025

How information circulates, who controls it, and how access changes over time. Students examine the relationships among media technologies, culture, politics, and everyday life.

Upcoming Teaching

WINTER · 2027

Wilfrid Laurier University: German History, 1870–1990; Fascism in Europe, 1919–1945; sport history.

University of Toronto Mississauga: Shopping and Society.

Teaching Development

Alongside my disciplinary teaching, I have delivered lectures, workshops, and seminars through the University of Waterloo’s Centre for Teaching Excellence. My interests include learner engagement, clear explanation, and essential questions that connect course content with broader analytical skills.

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